Tools for checking a UK casino licence

01 Why these three, and why none of them scores anything

Most casino tools sort. They take a list of operators, apply a weighting nobody publishes, and hand back a ranking — which is a recommendation wearing the clothes of a calculation. The three here do something narrower and duller: they answer questions of fact that a player cannot answer alone, from a document anyone can open, and they stop at the edge of what that document says.

The questions were not chosen because they were easy to build. They were chosen because the public record contains the answer and no casino site will give it to you. Which company holds the licence behind a brand. How many separate firms your accounts really represent. What a casino asks for at the door and how long it takes to pay you back. None of the three requires an opinion, and none of them produces one.

02 What the register answers, and the one thing it will not

Every business licensed to offer gambling in Britain appears in the Gambling Commission's public register, and every one of them must declare the web addresses it operates. We read all 2,664 of them on 31st July 2026. 604 declare a website at all — the remaining 2,060 are the rest of the industry: land-based casinos, bingo halls, arcades, machine suppliers, software firms, testing houses and lotteries. Between them the 604 declare 2,135 addresses. The largest single portfolio, Jumpman Gaming Limited, lists 227 of them on one account.

The register is complete, current and free. It is also searchable in exactly one direction: by the name of the licensed business. Type a company name and it will tell you everything that company runs. Type the name of a casino you saw an advert for, or the address you were about to register with, and it returns nothing at all — not because the casino is unlicensed, but because the brand is not what the register is indexed on. A player has the brand. The register wants the company. That gap is the reason the first tool exists, and everything it does is run the register's own domain lists backwards.

03 The company is the unit, not the brand

Once you can get from a brand to its licence holder, the shape of the market changes. The 139 British casino brands we hold records for run on 48 licences: 81% of them share their licence with a rival brand. Sharing a licence is not a technicality about paperwork. It means the same company, the same platform, the same terms, the same verification team and the same complaints route — the entire thing a player is choosing between, held in common by two sites that look nothing like each other.

This is why the second tool asks about your accounts rather than about casinos in the abstract. Spreading a balance across four brands is a sensible instinct. Spreading it across four brands that turn out to be two companies is the same instinct producing half the protection it was aiming for, and there is nothing on any of the four sites that would tell you. The tool does not advise you to close anything. It shows you the count and names the overlaps, and what you do about it is not our business.

04 What a blank result means, and what it does not

Search a domain that no licensed British business has declared and the answer is that it is not in the register's domain lists. That is strong evidence and it is not proof, and the tool is written to keep those two apart. Three quite different situations produce an identical blank: a site licensed but recently launched, whose declaration has not caught up; a page or a redirect rather than the address the company actually filed; and an operator with no British licence at all. From the outside they are indistinguishable, so the tool names all three rather than choosing the most dramatic one.

It will never tell you a casino is unlicensed. It cannot, and a tool that implied it would be making a confident claim about the very thing it has no evidence for — which is the error this whole site was built to avoid. A silence sends a reader to look elsewhere; a confident wrong answer stops them looking at all, and the second is worse.

05 How current this is, and how to check it

The register reading is dated 31st July 2026, and every page built on it prints that date rather than implying it is live. Licence details move slowly — a licensee's name, address and account number rarely change from one year to the next. Payment integrations and withdrawal times move without notice, which is why those figures carry the operator's own wording and the date we read it rather than being presented as current fact.

Every answer these tools give links back to the company's own page on the Gambling Commission register, so it can be confirmed at source in a single click. That is deliberate: the tools are worth using only if you never have to take our word for anything, and the fastest way to keep a reference honest is to make it trivial to check. Where the register and this site disagree, the register is right. Tell us and it gets corrected, with the correction recorded.

None of the three needs an account, and nothing you type leaves your device. Each loads one static data file and does its work in the browser; there is no server to send a query to, and the site runs no analytics of any kind. That is not a privacy feature bolted on afterwards — it is what a lookup against a public document ought to cost, which is nothing, and it is the reason none of these 51 pages carries a score, a ranking, or a link that pays us.