Curaçao gaming licence check
Check a Curaçao licence in three steps: the casino’s terms, its seal and certificate, and the regulator’s register. We ran the check on the casinos we review and explain each result, including the October 2026 seal change.
Start the checkA full match means the company, the licence number and the exact domain agree across the terms, the certificate and the register. Keep the date of each source: the register and the certificates do not always say the same thing.
How to check a Curaçao gaming licence: the short answer
A Curaçao gaming licence check takes three steps. First, find the company and licence number in the casino’s terms or footer. Second, click the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) seal: it should open a certificate page on cert.cga.cw that names the exact website you are on, the operator and the licence status. Third, look the company up in the CGA’s licence register, a PDF on the regulator’s website, and read its status and dates.
The licence is held by a company, not a casino brand, so the register lists companies and the certificate links each website to its company. A full match means the company, the licence number and the exact domain agree across all three. Note one change in October 2026: the CGA retired its online portal and said it would replace the current seal with another way of showing that a website is licensed. When we checked that month, the certificate pages still loaded.
What a licence check shows for the 12 casinos we review
We ran all three steps for each casino we review in October 2026. Seven hold Curaçao licences and pass the domain check; the other five either hold an Anjouan licence, which the CGA register does not cover, or give nothing to check.
| Casino | Terms or footer, seal and certificate, register and result |
|---|---|
| Rolletto | Claim: Santeda International B.V., OGL/2024/1798/1048. Certificate: rolletto.win, Active. Register: Assessment in progress. Result: company, licence and domain match; the review is still open. |
| Velobet | Claim: Santeda, same licence. Certificates: velobet.com and velobet.win, Active. Register: Assessment in progress. Result: match; review still open. |
| Zizobet | Claim: Santeda, same licence. Certificate: zizobet.com, Active. Register: Assessment in progress. Result: match; review still open. |
| Cosmobet | Claim: Santeda, same licence, although its blog cites a number that is not in the register. Certificates: cosmobet.com and cosmobet.one, Active. Register: Assessment in progress. Result: match for the casino; review still open. |
| Goldenbet | Claim: Santeda, same licence. Certificate: goldenbet.com, Active. Register: Assessment in progress. Result: match; review still open. |
| Betmac | Claim: Sefiarray B.V., OGL/2024/842/0350. Certificate: betmac3.com, Active. Register: Assessment in progress, expiry field July 2026. Result: match; review still open, and its terms still send disputes to Curaçao eGaming. |
| Freshbet | Claim: Ryker B.V., OGL/2024/1800/1049. Certificates: freshbet.com and freshbet1.me, Active. Register: Indefinite. Result: full match with a full licence. |
| Wildies | Claim: an Anjouan licence held by Leva Limited. Result: not a Curaçao licence, so the CGA check does not apply; the Anjouan register lists wildies.com but not its numbered addresses. |
| Slotosport | Claim: the footer says it is authorised but gives no regulator, licence number or seal. Result: nothing to check, and no CGA register entry. |
| Winbeast | Claim: no licence number, regulator or seal. Result: nothing to check; no CGA or Anjouan register entry. |
| Winplace | Claim: the footer’s licence area is empty. Result: nothing to check; no CGA or Anjouan register entry. |
| Legionbet | Claim: no licence number, regulator or seal. Result: nothing to check; an Anjouan register search found no entry. |
The pattern is worth knowing. For six of the seven Curaçao-licensed casinos, the certificate says “Active” while the register still shows the licence under assessment, with an expiry date that has passed; only Freshbet’s holder has an indefinite licence in the register. Our page on Curaçao gaming licence holders explains who is behind each casino.
Step 1: find the licence claim in the terms and footer
Open the casino’s terms and scroll to the footer. Under the CGA’s terms guideline, a licensed casino’s terms must name the licence holder, its address, its Curaçao company number, the licence number and the licence issue date. Note the exact website address after any redirect, because a certificate covers one domain only.
Keep the payment agent separate: the five Santeda casinos and Freshbet each name a Cyprus company that handles payments, which is not the licence holder. And watch for old wording. References to a master licence, a sublicence, a number ending in “JAZ”, Curaçao eGaming, the Gaming Control Board or the 1993 ordinance describe the system before the 2024 law; the sublicence system ended in October 2025. Old wording does not prove a licence is invalid, but it means the claim needs the next two steps.
Step 2: check the seal, the Curaçao licence logo and validator
The Curaçao licence logo on a casino is a seal. Under the CGA’s certification policy, a casino licensed to serve players must display its Certificate of Operation seal exactly as issued, and clicking it must open a page on cert.cga.cw. That page is the validator: it must show the exact domain you are on, the licensed operator and the licence’s current status. The CGA says that if the certificate names a different domain, the website is displaying another operator’s certificate and should be treated as unauthorised.
Two other seals cause confusion. The CGA’s licence certificate seal confirms that a company holds a licence, but it is not domain-specific and does not authorise a casino website. The orange seal used for sublicensed websites during the transition expired in October 2025, and seals that open a former master licence holder’s own validator belong to the old system. For the seven Curaçao-licensed casinos we review, the certificates all named the casino’s own domain, and on six of them we followed the seal from the casino’s own pages.
The October 2026 change
In October 2026 the CGA said its online portal would not return to service, that the availability of the current digital seal would be affected and that it would shortly introduce another way for operators to show that a website is licensed. It had not published that mechanism when we checked later that month. Until it does, a seal that no longer opens a certificate is a question to put to the casino rather than proof either way; the register remains the check you can always do.
Step 3: search the Curaçao gaming licence register
The CGA’s licence register page lists four overviews: land-based casinos, online gaming licences, certificates and an enforcement register. For a casino, open the online gaming licences PDF. It is a list of companies, so a Curaçao gaming licence search works by company name, company number or licence number rather than by casino brand: use your PDF reader’s find function with the details from step 1.
Each row gives the licence number, the licensee, whether the licence is B2C (for serving players) or B2B (for suppliers), the company number, the issue and expiry dates and a status. In the October 2026 edition, 666 licences were listed, most of them “Indefinite” or “Assessment in progress”; our guide to Curaçao gaming licence changes explains each status. The CGA says its overviews do not guarantee the current validity of a licence, so keep the date of the edition you used.
The enforcement register lists licences the CGA has revoked or not extended; the September 2026 edition named none of the companies behind the casinos we review. The certificates list covers testing laboratories and dispute services the CGA has certified, such as eCOGRA, not casino websites; our guide to the Curaçao Gaming Authority names the seven certified dispute services.
How to read the result of a Curaçao licence check
| What you found | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate for this domain is Active; register says Indefinite | A full match with a full licence. | Note the date of your check. |
| Certificate Active; register says Assessment in progress | The licence exists and the CGA is still reviewing it. | Note both results and recheck later editions. |
| Certificate names a different domain | The CGA says the website is unauthorised. | Do not rely on the seal. |
| Seal is only an image or opens nothing | No validation; possibly the October 2026 changeover. | Ask the casino and use the register. |
| Company not in the register | No current Curaçao licence for that company in that edition. | Check spelling and the company number, then treat the claim as unsupported. |
| No licence named, or another regulator | The Curaçao check does not apply. | Check the named regulator’s own register, or note that there is nothing to check. |
Write down what matched and what did not, with dates: “company and licence match; certificate for this domain Active; register shows Assessment in progress, October 2026” is a far more useful result than a tick. A licence check also has limits. It tells you who is responsible for the casino, not how it treats payouts or complaints; our guide to whether Curaçao casinos are safe covers those terms.
A Curaçao licence check is not a UK licence check
A casino serving customers in Great Britain needs a licence from the Gambling Commission, whatever it holds in Curaçao. The Commission’s public register, on the Gambling Commission website, can be searched by business name, trading name or domain name; the companies in our table hold Curaçao or Anjouan licences, not UK ones. Our guide to the Curaçao gambling licence in the UK explains the difference.
Our assessment
A Curaçao licence check is quick and worth doing: in a few minutes the terms, the seal and the register tell you which company runs the casino and whether its licence covers the website you are on. For the casinos we review, it separates seven Curaçao-licensed sites with matching certificates from five that hold another licence or none. The register and the certificates do not always agree, and the CGA is changing its seals, so record what each source said and when.
How we checked this guide
We read the CGA’s certification policy, terms and conditions guideline, licence register (October 2026 edition), enforcement register and announcements of September and October 2026, and opened the certificate linked from each Curaçao-licensed casino’s site in October 2026. The casino claims come from the terms and footers captured for our October 2026 reviews, and the Anjouan results from that regulator’s public register in the same month. We did not contact the CGA or the casinos.
Frequently asked questions
How do I check if a Curaçao licence is real?
Click the casino’s CGA seal: it should open a certificate on cert.cga.cw naming the exact domain, the operator and an Active status. Then find the operator’s company number in the CGA licence register and check its status and dates.
Where is the Curaçao gaming licence register?
On the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s website, under its licence register page, as a PDF of online gaming licences. It lists companies rather than casino brands, with licence numbers, types, dates and statuses.
What should the Curaçao licence logo show?
A Curaçao-licensed casino displays the CGA’s Certificate of Operation seal. Clicking it must open a certificate page on cert.cga.cw for that exact domain; a seal that opens nothing or names another domain is not valid confirmation.
Is there a Curaçao licence validator?
Yes, the certificate page on cert.cga.cw that the seal opens. In October 2026 the CGA said it would replace its current seal after retiring its portal, but the certificate pages still loaded when we checked that month.
Can I still check a Curaçao Gaming Control Board licence?
The Gaming Control Board became the Curaçao Gaming Authority in December 2024, so check the company in the CGA register instead. A casino that still names the Gaming Control Board has old wording in its terms.
What if a casino’s licence says “Assessment in progress”?
The CGA has not finished reviewing that licence. It does not mean the licence has lapsed or been renewed; check that the casino’s certificate for its domain says Active and recheck later register editions.