An Anjouan licence is held by a company and names the web addresses it covers, so checking one is a matter of matching three things: the address in your browser, the company named in the casino’s terms and the licence on the authority’s public Anjouan licence register. A badge or a familiar brand name is where the check starts; the match is what tells you which company runs your account.
How do you check an Anjouan licence in a minute?
Start from the web address, not the brand name, and work through five quick steps.
- Copy the exact web address of the site you play on from the address bar, not the name in the logo.
- Find the licence line in the casino’s footer or terms, a company name and a number that starts with ALSI. Some casinos show it in some countries only, and a numbered mirror may show none, so read the version your account opens.
- Click the seal. A live seal opens a validation page, and the website it names should be the one in your address bar.
- Search the register yourself for that address, not through the casino’s badge. If nothing comes up, search again with the company and the licence number, then find your complete address in the list on the entry; a similar brand or a numbered mirror site is a different address.
- Read the status and the expiry date together. If they disagree, or the date has passed, ask the authority for the current position before you rely on the licence.
The register belongs to the Anjouan Gaming Authority, and each entry shows the company, its licence number and type, its dates and the addresses it covers. The licences are issued under Anjouan’s Computer Gaming Licensing Act, the law the validation pages cite, and we set out what that licence asks a casino to do with your money on a separate page. The notice that comes with the register says it is updated from time to time and suggests contacting the authority when a decision depends on the current position.
What does the check show at real casinos?
Here is what the check finds at six casinos that hold an Anjouan licence. Every entry below carries an expiry date that is still ahead, and each name with a review opens it.
| Casino | Where the licence shows | What the check finds | Company and licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildies | Not printed on its own pages | wildies.com is on the entry, among 8 addresses; its numbered mirror addresses are not | Leva Limited, ALSI-152406026-FI2 |
| Smash Casino | Footer line and seal on smash.casino; its numbered mirror shows neither | The seal check reads VALID; smash.casino is on an entry of 10 addresses | Softon Ltd, ALSI-202409012-FI1 |
| CleanWins | Footer line and seal; the seal is hidden in some countries | The seal check reads VALID; cleanwins.com shares its entry with slotroyals.com | Onimim Ltd, ALSI-192407051-FI3; its terms print the number with an -FB ending, so search the footer’s FI3 |
| Trixino | Footer line and no seal for some countries; elsewhere the page names a Curaçao self-exclusion form instead | trixino.com is on an entry of 21 addresses | Exceptiosoft LTD, ALSI-202606020-FI1 |
| Spin Polo and Daytona Spin | On the register | spinpolo.com and daytonaspin.com sit on one entry of 29 addresses | Win Top Ltd, ALSI-202509029-FI1 |
Each number starts with ALSI and ends with an FI suffix. The type tells a casino that serves players (B2C) from a supplier that sells to casinos (B2B), and some licences combine both. A few numbers on the register break the pattern, with spaces, mixed letter case or no suffix, and two carry an FII ending. So if one search finds nothing, try the web address and the company as well. The digits after ALSI usually carry the issue year and month, but the dates have fields of their own, and those are the ones to read.
Why is “valid” not the whole answer?
Because every licence on the authority’s list reads “valid”, including some whose stated expiry date has already passed, so the expiry date is the field that tells you more. An expiry date still ahead does not settle everything either: a licence can be suspended or revoked before it runs out, and the register can take a while to show a change.
The authority’s licence status definitions name four states, Active, Suspended, Revoked and Expired, and Active means the licence is currently valid, yet some rows past their expiry still read “valid”. The separate suspension and revocation lists, covered under the empty search below, are worth a look too.
When the status and the dates disagree, note both and ask the authority for the current position. “Valid” is worth a second look, and a past date does not prove that a licence was not renewed.
Why does the web address matter more than the name?
Because a licence covers addresses, not brands. A search for “madcasino” returns two entries held by two different companies: madcasino.io sits on the entry of the company behind Smash Casino, while the Mad Casino we review runs at mad.casino.
Which company applies depends on the address you actually use, so match that address and the company in your account terms. It works the other way round too: cleanwins.com and slotroyals.com share one entry, so one company and one licence stand behind CleanWins and SlotRoyals.
Names can also come close without meaning anything. The entry with wildies.com also lists shelbyspin.com, while a search for “shelbywin” finds nothing. ShelbyWin names a Curaçao master licence on its own site, and a similar spelling is no evidence that two sites share a licence. A brand search gets you started; the exact address finishes the check.
What does a licence seal actually check?
The website named in its link. The interactive seal opens a validation page in a new tab, and the link behind it carries a web address. When that address matches the site in your browser, the seal tells you about the right site. Copying the seal image onto another site does not carry the licence with it.
A live certificate opens on the authority’s verification service, the host the seals link to, and the authority’s certificate verification framework asks for the company, the status, the approved web addresses and the period of validity to be read together.
A numbered mirror site is a different address, and many show no seal at all, so a mirror is not covered just because the original is on the register. That is why the field to read on the validation page is Registered Website(s): if it differs from your address bar, the seal is describing a different site.
A broken validation link can also return INVALID. Follow the live certificate link from the casino’s footer, see where it leads, and read the fields. If the check still fails, the authority can confirm whether the address is covered; an error screen on its own does not explain the cause.
What if a search finds nothing?
Then the search returned no match, and there are four common reasons to look at before drawing a conclusion:
- The casino is licensed somewhere else. Curaçao, Malta, Estonia and several other places license online casinos. On our list, Zizobet, Cosmobet and Velobet name Curaçao, LuckyWave says Costa Rica and ShelbyWin says a Curaçao master licence (their own statements), so the Anjouan register is the wrong place to find them.
- The web address does not contain the brand name. The register is searched by company and address, so a brand trading on an address that reads differently will not appear under its brand name.
- The licence has been taken away. The authority keeps a revoked licence list and a suspended licence list, and the companies on them do not appear in the main register. It also publishes regulatory notices.
- The casino holds no Anjouan licence, whatever its footer suggests.
Note the exact search, the address and the result. An empty search by brand name says nothing about other companies, other addresses or other licensing authorities.
How do you complain about an Anjouan casino?
Go to the casino first, and keep the complaint reference and every message. The authority’s complaint policy sets the route in three steps.
- Complain to the casino through the complaint form in its licence seal: within 14 days of the session for a disputed game result, within 30 days for account matters such as payments, blocks or bonuses, in English. A complaint sent another way may not be accepted. If the casino shows no seal where you are, use the complaint form or address in its terms and keep the reference.
- Give the casino time to answer. The operator has 30 days to answer.
- Take it outside if it is still open. If the complaint is still open after that, you may take it to one of the authority’s approved dispute-resolution (ADR) providers, EGIS ADR, Axion ADR, iGaming ADR or CADRE, at the operator’s cost.
The authority itself does not decide individual complaints, and the process does not cover players from territories the licence excludes. The seal pages of several casinos list Australia, Comoros, France, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA as excluded, so read the restricted-country list in your account terms. Look for the ADR provider’s name in the casino’s terms too; the licence conditions require it for new licences and for existing ones by their next renewal.
Casinos that name a Curaçao licence follow a separate route, the casino first and then a certified ADR provider under the Curaçao rules.
How does an Anjouan check differ from a Curaçao one?
Both jurisdictions publish their licences and offer a certificate check, but they show the details differently. Curaçao’s regulator is the Curaçao Gaming Authority, formerly the Gaming Control Board.
| Anjouan | Curaçao | |
|---|---|---|
| Register | One searchable table of every licence; interactive certificates give a separate check | Licence lists published as PDFs and updated from time to time, plus certificate pages that open from the seal |
| Search by web address | Yes, addresses are a column in the table | Not on the lists: the PDFs have no address column, and certificate pages open from a casino’s seal |
| Number format | ALSI-…-FI…, with a few numbers that break the pattern | OGL/… and CGA/… since Curaçao’s licensing reform |
| Status shown | “valid” on every entry, including some past their stated expiry date | Expired and Revoked marked in the list; a revoked licence still resolves, with a Revoked badge |
| Enforcement history | Separate suspension, revocation and notice pages; the companies named there are absent from the main table | Kept in the list and marked, plus a separate register of actions on licence status |
| Public warnings | Revocation notices published, naming each company | Named warnings, including operators misusing the regulator’s own seal |
| Player disputes | Casino, then an approved ADR provider; the authority states it does not handle, mediate or decide complaints | Casino, then a certified ADR provider, free to the player at the operator’s cost; the regulator states it does not handle individual player disputes |
For the jurisdiction as a whole, how many licences there are, what they cover, when they were issued and what they cost, see Anjouan licensed casinos in numbers.
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