A licence number printed in a website footer is static text. It becomes information only when the same number is found in the register of the body that issued it, and the register answers three narrow questions: which company holds it, which number it is, and what status that number carried on the day it was read.
This page explains where to look, what the entry contains, and why the same number keeps appearing under different brand names. The counts come from a library of 100 crypto casino brands whose own terms and register entries were read on 26 August 2026.
How many of the hundred publish a number at all?
Sixty-eight brands out of 100 publish a licence number somewhere in their own pages. Thirty-two publish none. That second figure is not a verdict on those thirty-two: for 21 of the hundred, nothing could be read at all, because the pages did not open from the point the library was compiled and no archived copy carried the terms either. An empty field means the document was not read, not that the document says nothing.
Of the 68 published numbers, the distinct ones total 53.
Why does the same number appear on several sites?
Because the licence is issued to a company, not to a brand name. Nine of those 53 numbers cover 24 brands between them. The widest case is the Anjouan registration ALSI-202508056-FI2, which the public register ties to a single holder and which appears on five separate brands: Oshi Casino, PlayAmo, Slotum, Winz.io and Bitkingz. Three more numbers cover three brands each, and five cover two each.
A reader comparing two sites side by side can therefore be comparing two front doors of one company. The number is the only field on the page that reveals it.
The detail of which numbers repeat, and which companies sit behind them, is set out on our page about one licence number and many brands.
Where does a Curaçao number go when you look it up?
Curaçao numbers in the modern format begin OGL, followed by a year, a file number and a sequence, for example OGL/2024/1307/0748. They are looked up in the certificate portal at cert.cga.cw, which is indexed by domain rather than by number. The certificate that comes back names the domain, the operating company, the company registration number in Curaçao, the licence number, the date the licence was granted and its current status.
Forty-three of the hundred domains returned such a certificate. Twenty-eight of those certificates record a grant date in 2024 and fifteen in 2025.
Where does an Anjouan number go when you look it up?
Anjouan numbers begin ALSI and run in the form ALSI-202508056-FI2. They appear in the public licence register published by the Anjouan Gaming Board, which lists the number, the holding company, the status, the issue date and the expiry date. Thirty-nine of the hundred domains were found there.
The expiry date is the field that has no equivalent on the Curaçao certificate, and it matters: twenty of those 39 entries expire during 2026.
Both registers are described field by field on our pages about the Curaçao certificate and the Anjouan register.
What does a matching entry actually confirm?
It confirms that on the day of reading, a body of that name held a record tying that number to that company and, on the Curaçao portal, to that domain. That is the whole of it.
It does not confirm that a payout will arrive. It does not confirm that the terms on the site match the terms filed with the regulator. It does not confirm that the company answers correspondence. And it says nothing about whether the reader’s own jurisdiction permits the reader to use the service, which is a separate question governed by domestic law rather than by the operator’s licence.
What does a mismatch tell you?
Three different outcomes hide behind the phrase “not found”, and they are not interchangeable.
- The number appears in the register with a status other than active. Five brands in the library sit on numbers recorded as revoked, and three of those five share one number.
- The number appears, but tied to a different domain or a different company than the one printed on the site.
- The domain simply is not in that register. This is not proof that the operator is unlicensed; it may be licensed elsewhere, or listed under a domain spelling the register indexes differently.
Only the first of the three is a finding. The other two are reasons to keep looking.
The revoked cases, and what a revocation does and does not do to an account, are set out on our page about revoked casino licences.
What should you write down before comparing two sites?
Five fields, copied exactly as they appear, are enough to make two sites comparable rather than merely different:
- The licence number, character for character, including the slashes or hyphens.
- The name of the issuing body as the site states it, not as you would summarise it.
- The company name and, where the register gives one, the company registration number.
- The status the register showed, and the date you read it.
- The expiry date, if the register publishes one.
The fifth field is empty for every Curaçao certificate in the library, because the portal does not print one. Writing “not published” in that cell is accurate. Writing “no expiry” would not be.
Why the date of reading belongs next to the number
Register status is a snapshot. A number that read as active on 26 August 2026 is a fact about 26 August 2026, and nothing more. Two of the entries in this library changed category between readings, which is exactly why every figure on this site carries the date it was read rather than a claim of permanence.
A number without a date is a decoration. A number with a date is a record.
The same discipline applies to everything else printed on an operator’s pages, including the payment and asset descriptions covered in our guide to Bitcoin casinos in India.
What the hundred brands leave unpublished is its own subject, and it is larger than what they publish: see what crypto casinos do not publish.