How the list of licensed betting businesses is built

Every business on the list comes from the Gambling Commission’s register. We do not type a business in by hand, and we do not add one because it asked.

Where the list comes from

The Gambling Commission publishes a register of gambling businesses that can be searched and downloaded, with the data available as CSV, Excel and a zip file.Source: Gambling Commission

We read four of those downloads: the licences, the businesses, the trading names and the domain names. The last read was on 4 October 2026: 4,506 licence rows and 2,632 businesses.

We keep a stored copy of every register row we use, and our checks fail if the list on the site and the stored rows differ. The list cannot change without the register rows behind it changing too.

Which licences count

Betting is remote when either party to the bet uses the internet, telephone, television, radio or another electronic technology to make or accept it, and a remote operating licence is then required.Source: Gambling Commission

A business is listed when the register shows all of these:

• a remote licence, which is the kind an online betting site needs;
• for betting on real events, or as a betting exchange or intermediary (the register calls it a betting intermediary);
• with the status Active.

That gave 95 businesses on 4 October 2026. A licence that has ended or been suspended does not count, even if the business still has a website.

A pool betting licence on its own does not put a business on the list; the business also needs a real-event betting or exchange licence.

Who is left off

The licence rule leaves off any business whose only remote licences are casino, bingo, lottery or pool betting, because this site is about betting. A reviewer also leaves off two kinds of business that do hold a qualifying betting licence: those whose sites are all casino, bingo, lottery or arcade sites, and suppliers that provide software or services to other operators and have no betting site of their own. Each of those reviewer decisions is recorded with its reason.

A business that is not here may still be licensed. The register is the authority, and checking it yourself takes a couple of minutes.

When a business has a Visit button

56 of the 95 have one. The address always comes from the websites the register lists as active for that business, in one of these ways:

1. If the register’s active websites for the business are all one site, and it is not a casino-style address, the button goes there. If they are several, the button goes to the one whose name equals an active trading name of the business, again leaving out casino-style and app addresses.
2. Otherwise a reviewer may choose one site. It must be a secure (https) address on an active website the register lists for that same business, and the reviewer records the reason and the check that was made.
3. A business that runs a second betting brand can get one more button for that brand, under the same rule: an active trading name of the business, and a different site on an active website the register lists for it.

A reviewer can also mark a business as having no button when:

• its site does not load properly: the security certificate does not match, the address does not resolve, the page returns an error or shows only a loading screen;
• the site is only a holding page, or is led by casino games;
• it is not a betting site, such as a fantasy game or a prediction market;
• it is the same brand that already has a button under another licensee, since each brand gets one button.

We never use an address the register does not list for that business, and we do not search for a better one elsewhere.

Every button goes through a sponsored link, and only to a business on this list. The list says nothing about which business is better: they are in alphabetical order.

What the list does not tell you

The register shows that a business is licensed and what it may offer. It does not show whether the odds, limits, payments or support are any good. We do not rate those, so a place on the list is not a recommendation. If something goes wrong with a licensed business, here is how to complain.

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