“Anjouan licensed” appears in thousands of casino footers, and almost nobody who writes it has looked at the register behind it. We downloaded the whole thing on 10 September 2026 — all 1,506 licences — and counted.
What follows is the shape of the jurisdiction: how many licences exist, what one actually covers, who holds them, when they were issued and how long they run. If you want to check one particular casino instead, that is a different job and we have written it up separately in our guide to checking an Anjouan licence.
How many Anjouan-licensed casinos there are
On 10 September 2026 the register held 1,506 licences issued to 1,505 distinct companies. Effectively one licence per company: this is not a jurisdiction where a handful of groups hold everything.
That is worth pausing on, because it is the opposite of how Curaçao used to work. Under the old Curaçao model four master licence holders sub-licensed to hundreds of operators, so a footer told you almost nothing about who you were dealing with. Anjouan issues directly, one company at a time, and the register names the company.
A licence is a company plus a list of web addresses
This is the single most useful thing to understand, and it is where most confusion starts.
An Anjouan licence is not attached to a brand. It is attached to named domains, listed in their own column in the register, and one licence can carry a great many. Across the 1,506 licences there are 4,059 unique domains — an average of roughly two and a half web addresses per licence, with plenty of licences carrying eight or ten.
So a single licensee can be running a dozen differently branded casinos that share nothing visually. Two casinos that look unrelated may sit on one licence; two that look identical may sit on two.
A related quirk: 49 licences list no domain at all. Those are entries you cannot connect to any website, which makes them impossible to use as a check in either direction.
What kind of licences these are
The register separates operators from suppliers, and includes two hybrid categories.
| Type | Licences | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| B2C | 1,283 | Casinos taking players directly |
| B2B | 172 | Suppliers selling to operators, not to players |
| B2B & B2C | 30 | Both roles under one licence |
| B2C, B2B & whitelabeling | 21 | Both, plus permission to run white-label brands for others |
The 21 whitelabeling licences are the interesting ones. A white-label arrangement means one licensee operates casinos that trade under someone else’s brand, which is precisely the structure that makes ownership hard to trace from the outside. Twenty-one licences is a small number, but each can sit under many brands.
The practical consequence for a player: if you find your casino’s domain on a B2B licence, something is wrong, because a B2B licence does not authorise taking players.
When these licences were issued
Anjouan is a recent arrival at this scale, and the register shows it plainly.
| Year issued | Licences |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 44 |
| 2024 | 417 |
| 2025 | 592 |
| 2026, to 10 September | 453 |
Two-thirds of every licence on the register was issued in the past twenty months. The jump between 2023 and 2024 is roughly tenfold, and 2026 is on course to match 2025 with a quarter of the year still to run.
The timing is not a coincidence. Curaçao closed its master-licence system in December 2024, which removed the cheapest and fastest route to a licence that the industry had. Anjouan’s growth curve begins immediately before that and accelerates through it.
How long an Anjouan licence runs
Terms are short by the standards of most gambling regulators.
| Term | Licences |
|---|---|
| One year | 887 |
| Two years | 462 |
| Three years | 153 |
A clear majority run for a single year. That matters for anyone relying on a licence check, because a one-year term means the answer you got six months ago may already be out of date — and it explains why so much of the register is close to, or past, its expiry date at any given moment.
338 licences expire within ninety days of the date we checked. Roughly one licence in five on this register turns over every quarter.
What it costs to hold one
The licensor publishes its fees, which is more than many jurisdictions do.
- €17,828 to issue a licence, the same for B2C and B2B
- €17,828 a year to renew it
- €500 for each additional domain added to a B2C licence
Application fees are stated to be non-refundable regardless of outcome. Set the domain fee against the earlier figure of 4,059 domains and the economics of the register become fairly clear: additional domains are cheap relative to the licence itself, which is one reason a single licensee accumulates so many.
The separate register almost nobody mentions
Alongside the main licence register there is a second, much smaller one: a Recognition Letter Register holding 29 entries, with numbers ending in REC rather than FI.
These are recognitions issued to business-to-business suppliers, and the holders are based in places like Malta, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Sweden, Romania and the United Kingdom — jurisdictions with established gambling regulation of their own. A recognition is not an operating licence and does not authorise a casino.
It is worth knowing this register exists, because a supplier’s recognition number can be mistaken for an operator’s licence by anyone skim-reading a footer.
Enforcement, in numbers
The licensor publishes enforcement actions, and as at 10 September 2026 there have been three in total.
| Company | Action | Date | Stated reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knifex Ltd | Revoked | 9 June 2026 | Fraud |
| Amor 25 Limited | Revoked | 10 July 2026 | Illegal sublicensing |
| Mucho Gaming Limited | Suspended | September 2026 | Breach of licence conditions; failure to participate in ADR |
Three actions against 1,506 live licences. Draw from that what you like — a young register with compliant licensees, or a supervisory function that is not yet visible in its output. What is not in dispute is that none of the three still appears in the register: enforcement subjects are removed rather than flagged, so the register itself carries no history of any of this.
Checking one specific casino
Everything above describes the jurisdiction. None of it tells you whether the casino in front of you is licensed, because that depends entirely on whether your exact domain appears in the Domains column of a current entry.
That check takes about two minutes and has some traps in it — the status column, similar domain names, and what an empty result does and does not prove. We have set it out step by step in our Anjouan licence check guide.
Sources and dates
- Anjouan licence register, complete snapshot of all 1,506 entries taken 10 September 2026. Every count on this page is our own, computed from that snapshot.
- Anjouan Licensing Services published fee schedule, read 10 September 2026
- Anjouan Recognition Letter Register, read 10 September 2026
- Anjouan enforcement pages for revoked and suspended licences, read 10 September 2026
These figures are a photograph of a register that changes weekly. Licences are issued, terms lapse and domains are added. Treat every number here as dated rather than current, and re-run the count if it matters to a decision.
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