How to check an Anjouan casino licence, and the three things the register will not tell you

Every Anjouan casino site says it is licensed. The claim is worth exactly as much as the register entry behind it, and the register is public, so there is no reason to take anyone’s word for it — including ours.

This page shows how to run the check yourself in about two minutes, what a genuine result looks like, and three things the register does that will mislead you if nobody has warned you about them. At the end we run every casino reviewed on this site through the register and publish what came back, including the ones that returned nothing.

The register is the only thing that settles it

Anjouan licences are administered by Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. under the Anjouan Computer Gaming Licensing Act 2005, and the administrator publishes a searchable register of every licence it has issued.

On 10 September 2026 that register held 1,506 licences. It is searchable by company name, by licence number and by domain, and each row shows seven fields: Company, Status, License Number, Type, Issue Date, Expiry Date and Domains.

The footer badge on a casino site is not the check. A badge is an image with a link, and both are trivially copied. The register is the record.

What an Anjouan licence number looks like

Anjouan licence numbers follow a consistent shape, and knowing it lets you spot a fabricated one immediately.

Current numbers begin ALSI, for the administrator, and carry an FI suffix. The Type column separates B2C licences, held by casinos taking players directly, from B2B licences held by suppliers.

Do not use that shape as a test, though, because the register does not keep to it. Eleven of the 1,506 numbers are malformed in the regulator’s own data: spaces instead of hyphens, a lower-case L in place of the I in ALSI, F16 where FI6 was meant, and one row missing its suffix altogether. We found the mismatch running the other way too, with a casino displaying a number ending FII while the register holds the same licence ending FI1.

That is the practical reason to search by domain rather than by licence number: exact-string matching fails at both ends. The middle digits partly encode the issue date, but two schemes are in use and dozens of rows follow neither, so read no meaning into them.

The four-step check

You need the casino’s domain, not its brand name. Read on for why that distinction matters more than it sounds.

1. Get the exact domain you are actually playing on, from the address bar. Not the name in the logo.
2. Open the licence register published by Anjouan Licensing Services by typing its address yourself rather than following a link from the casino, and put the domain into the search box. The search matches across every field, so a company name or a licence number works too.
3. Read the Domains column of any row that comes back and confirm your exact domain is listed in it. A licence covers named domains; a similar domain is not the same domain.
4. Read the Expiry Date and compare it with today’s date yourself. Do not rely on the Status column. The next section explains why.

If all four hold, the casino you are on is covered by a current Anjouan licence. If any fails, you have not confirmed anything — which is not the same as having disproved it.

When nothing comes back, search again by the company named in the site’s terms and by the licence number, then check the regulator’s enforcement pages. Only then record the result, and record it as “no row returned on this date” rather than as a verdict.

The Status column says “Valid” even after the licence has expired

This is the finding that matters most, and it is easy to demonstrate.

Searching the register for “madcasino” on 10 September 2026 returned two rows. Look at the second one.

Softon Ltd’s licence ran from 7 September 2024 to 6 September 2026. We checked on 10 September 2026. The expiry date had passed four days earlier, and the row still displayed “Valid”.

This is not a one-off, and it is not small. Every one of the 1,506 rows reads “valid” — no other value appears anywhere in the data. 313 of them, better than one in five, carry an expiry date that has already passed. Sixty-six lapsed during 2025, the oldest in July that year, and all of them still read valid today. A further 338 expire within ninety days.

The register’s own disclaimer is consistent with this. It says the register “is updated periodically and may not reflect changes that have occurred since the most recent update”, and that the Authority accepts no liability for reliance on it.

Practical consequence: ignore the Status column entirely and read the Expiry Date. It is the only field on the row that tells you about today.

One brand name can mean two different licensees

The same search shows the second trap. “Mad Casino” is not one licensed entity — it is two, holding separate licences over separate domains.

A player on mad.casino and a player on madcasino.io are dealing with different companies under different licences with different expiry dates. Anyone who checked the brand name rather than the domain would have no idea which of the two applied to them.

A licence covers domains, not brands — and the names can be close

Searching for “wildies” returns a single row: Leva Limited, licence ALSI-152406026-FI2, issued 10 June 2024 and running to 9 June 2027. The Domains column lists eight sites, and wildies.com is among them.

So is shelbyspin.com.

That matters because a search of the same register for “shelbywin” returns nothing at all. Two similar names, one covered by Leva Limited’s licence and one that our search did not find, and no way to tell them apart except by reading the Domains column character by character.

Read the domain, not the name that resembles it.

The seal is real, and it can still be checking a different site

The badge in a casino footer is not decoration. It is an iframe that loads a per-licensee script from the licensor’s servers, and that script builds a validation link containing the domain the seal is running on, read at the moment you click.

That makes the seal genuinely domain-bound, which is worth knowing. We tested it: the correct seal with its own domain returns VALID, and the same seal pointed at any other domain returns INVALID. Copying a badge to another site does not carry the licence with it.

But there is a gap, and it is the reason to read the validation page rather than glance at the badge. The seal reports the domain it is embedded in, which is not always the domain you are on. We found a casino operating on a numbered mirror of its main domain and taking players there, with the seal iframe served from the original domain. Inside the iframe the domain reads as the original, so the validator returns VALID. The register lists only the original. The player is on a site that appears nowhere in the register, looking at a green seal.

So when a validation page opens, read the Registered Website(s) field and compare it with your address bar. If they differ, the seal has told you about a different website.

One more thing before you use the validator: a missing or mistyped parameter returns INVALID, which looks exactly like “this casino is not licensed”. Reach it by clicking the live seal, not by typing a domain into it.

The licence excludes the United Kingdom

This is printed on the validation page itself, and we could not find it anywhere else.

An Anjouan gaming licence names excluded territories: Australia, Comoros, France, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA. The notice states that participation from those territories is prohibited, and that any disputes, claims, or complaints arising from players situated within these territories fall entirely outside the regulatory scope of the licence and will not be entertained.

The regulator’s complaints policy says the same from the other direction, listing complaints from players in excluded territories among the matters not subject to regulatory review.

For a UK reader that is the most important line in this whole process. The licence being checked is not written to cover you, and the dispute route described further down closes before it opens.

What “no result” does and does not mean

An empty search result is genuinely ambiguous, and it would be dishonest to present it as proof of anything. There are at least four reasons a search returns nothing.

• The casino is licensed somewhere else. Curaçao, Malta, Estonia and several others license online casinos. Not being in Anjouan’s register says nothing about any of them.
• The registered domain does not contain the brand name. The register indexes company names and domains, so a brand trading on a domain that reads differently will not surface under a brand-name search.
• The licence has been removed. We searched for every licensee the regulator has published an action against: Knifex Ltd, revoked for fraud in June 2026; Amor 25 Limited, revoked for illegal sublicensing in July 2026; and Mucho Gaming Limited, suspended in September 2026. None of the three appears in the register at all. Enforcement subjects are taken out rather than marked, so absence can mean “removed after revocation” as readily as “never licensed”. Those three are the only actions published against 1,506 live licences.
• The casino genuinely holds no Anjouan licence despite implying otherwise.

The register can confirm a licence. It cannot, on its own, disprove one. That asymmetry is worth holding on to.

Every casino on this site, run through the register

We searched the register for each brand reviewed on this site on 10 September 2026, using the brand name as the search term. Four returned a licence row. Eight returned nothing, which — per the section above — is a statement about our search, not a verdict on the operator.

Two of these deserve a note. 7Gear’s licence expires on 23 October 2026, about six weeks from the date of this check, so it is worth re-running. And Mad Casino’s second licensee has already passed its expiry date while still displaying as valid.

We publish the empty results as well as the hits because a comparison site that only reports the convenient half of its own research is not doing research.

What the register will not tell you

A licence row confirms that a licence exists over a domain until a date. It does not answer the questions players actually run into.

• Whether your money is held separately. The register publishes no information about player-fund segregation for any licensee.
• Whether the games are independently tested, or by whom.
• Who resolves a dispute. Anjouan licences require operators to use approved alternative dispute resolution providers, so a complaint runs through the casino first and then to an ADR body — not to the administrator as a court of appeal. Establish which ADR provider covers your account before you have a dispute, not during one.
• How the licensee has behaved. Because enforcement subjects are removed rather than flagged, the register carries no history, and a licensee revoked for cause looks identical to a company that never applied. Revocations and suspensions appear only in the regulator’s separate enforcement pages, so check those as well as the register.

How this compares with checking a Curaçao licence

Both jurisdictions publish a register and operate a seal, so the habit transfers. The detail differs more than the surface suggests.

The common ground is the part that matters most: neither regulator resolves individual player disputes or orders redress. A licence tells you who the operator is and until when. It tells you very little about what happens when something goes wrong.

For the shape of the jurisdiction as a whole — how many licences exist, what they cover, when they were issued and what they cost — see our companion page on Anjouan licensed casinos, counted from a full snapshot of the register.

Sources and dates

• Anjouan licence register published by Anjouan Licensing Services Inc. — searched 10 September 2026, 1,506 licences listed; individual searches for each brand recorded above
• The Computer Gaming Licensing Act 007 of 2005, State of Anjouan — the instrument these licences are issued under, as cited on the licence validation page
• Anjouan Gaming Authority: register disclaimer, third-party complaint policy, regulatory standards, and the revoked, suspended and regulatory-notice enforcement pages — read 10 September 2026
• A live licence validation page reached by clicking an operator seal — read 10 September 2026, and the source of the excluded-territories list
• Curaçao Gaming Authority, formerly the Gaming Control Board: online gaming licence registry dated 8 September 2026, enforcement register dated 10 July 2026, public warnings page and player complaints policy — all read 10 September 2026

Register entries change. Licences expire, domains are added and removed, and entries disappear when a licence is revoked. Every figure on this page is dated for that reason, and the check takes two minutes to repeat.

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