Licensing and Regulatory Information

What This Site Is, and What It Is Not

Dragobros is an independent information site about online casinos. It holds no gaming licence, operates no games and accepts no deposits — there is no cashier here and no account to open. What this page offers instead is the procedure for checking an operator’s licence yourself, which takes about five minutes and does not require trusting anything published on this site.

The Four Things a Licence Actually Tells You

• Who holds it. The legal company name, which is very often not the brand name printed on the site.
• What it covers. Some licences authorise only certain game categories, or exclude certain markets entirely.
• Whether it is current. Every record carries an issue date, an expiry date and a status field that can read suspended or revoked.
• Which domains sit under it. Most registers list the authorised URLs, and a brand’s mirror or redirect domain is frequently absent from that list.

How to Verify a Licence in Five Minutes

1. Scroll to the operator’s footer. A real licence statement names three things: the regulator, the licence number and the company holding it. A seal image without a number is decoration, not a statement.
2. Open the regulator’s own register directly. Do not use the link on the casino page — that link can point anywhere, including at a page the operator controls.
3. Search by the licence number. Then search again by the domain you are actually on. These are two different searches and they do not always agree.
4. Read the status and both dates. “Active” with an expiry two weeks away is a different proposition from one two years away.
5. Confirm that the exact domain in your address bar appears in the record. A licence that covers casino.com does not automatically cover casino37.com.

Why Step Three Is Two Searches Rather Than One?

Registers index their records differently. A number search returns that licence and its own domain list; a domain search returns whichever licence covers the domain — and the two can disagree. On a sister site in this network the footer printed a licence number whose register entry did not list that site’s own domain, while searching the same register by domain returned a different, valid licence that did cover it. A reader who checked only the number would have concluded the site was unlicensed. Run both searches before drawing any conclusion.

Public Registers You Can Search Yourself

All six publish a search page open to the public. If an operator names a regulator that has no public register at all, that in itself is worth weighing.

What a Licence Does Not Do

• It does not make the games generous. The return-to-player figure is set by the game studio and disclosed in the paytable; the regulator checks that the disclosed figure is what the game actually runs, not that the figure is high.
• It does not guarantee a dispute goes your way. It gives you a complaints route and an adjudicator — more than an unlicensed site offers, and less than a guarantee.
• It does not travel with the brand. When an operator moves to a numbered mirror domain, only the domains printed in the register are covered by the record.
• It does not survive its own expiry date, and expiry dates are shorter than most players assume — one-year terms are common in the smaller jurisdictions.

Red Flags in a Licence Claim

• A number that returns nothing in the register under either search.
• A seal image that links to a page on the operator’s own domain instead of the regulator’s.
• A footer naming a regulator but printing no number at all.
• A company name in the footer that appears in no register anywhere.
• A record whose expiry has passed, or whose status field reads suspended or revoked.
• A licence covering a root domain while you are sitting on a numbered mirror of it.

Questions About Casino Licensing

Does this site hold a gaming licence?

No, and it does not need one: it takes no bets and holds no player funds. Licences are held by operators. If you register with an operator through a link on this site, the licence that protects you is that operator’s, which is why every step above points at a regulator’s register rather than at anything published here.

Is a Curaçao licence worth less than a Malta one?

They are different products rather than different grades of the same one. Malta and the UK impose heavier reporting, segregated-funds and responsible-gambling obligations, and their complaint routes are more developed. A licence from a lighter-touch jurisdiction is still a real licence with a real register entry — the practical question is what the complaints procedure gives you when something goes wrong.

What should I do if the register does not list the site I am on?

Treat the absence as the answer and do not deposit. Contact support and ask, in writing, which licence covers that exact domain; a legitimate operator can answer in one line. An answer that redirects you to a seal image, or that arrives without a number, is not an answer.