New online gambling licences: 126 B2C licences issued in 90 days by the Curaçao and Anjouan registers

Key findings

• 126 B2C licences were issued in the 90 days up to 9 Oct 2026 across both registers: 110 by Anjouan and 16 by the CGA. In the last 30 days alone: 40 (Anjouan 31, CGA 9).
• 106 of 126 entries name at least one domain – all of them Anjouan entries (106 of 110; 180 domains in total, 32 entries with more than one). The CGA registry PDF publishes no domains at all, so for its 16 entries the brand behind the licence cannot be read from the register.
• 0 of 126 licensees of a newly dated B2C licence hold a second entry in the same register: at snapshot date every entry is its licensee’s only one, so the 126 licences belong to 126 different licensee names.
• Anjouan dates its licences in batches: the 110 B2C entries carry only 6 distinct issue dates (30 Sep 2026, 15 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026, 12 Aug 2026, 31 Jul 2026, 15 Jul 2026). The CGA entries spread over 14 dates, the most recent 10 Oct 2026.
• 4 of 16 CGA entries carry an “OGL/…” number from the 2023–24 licensing round and a 2026 issue date – the register re-dates an entry when it is renewed, so these are renewals, not first licences. 12 carry a “CGA/2025/…” number. CGA statuses in the window: Active 13, Indefinite 3.
• Licence terms as printed: Anjouan entries run for 1 year (110 of 110); the most common CGA term in the window is 181 days from issue to expiry (5 of the 13 entries with an expiry date); the remaining CGA entries show “Indefinite” with no expiry, the status the register uses once the full licence is granted.
• B2B (supplier) licences in the same window: 51 (CGA 17, Anjouan 34). Whole registers at snapshot date: CGA 615 entries (524 B2C), Anjouan 1543 entries (1366 B2C); 1 entry without a readable issue date is excluded.

How to read a new entry

A row here means one thing: on the date shown, the register listed that licence number for that licensee. It does not mean the site is live, that it accepts players from your country, that it pays out, or that anyone has checked how it treats players. In our method a licence is the start of the verification, not its result: the licensing check confirms a licence only when an independent register shows an active entry and attributes the exact domain to it. An Anjouan entry comes from a register run by the body that sells the licence, so it counts only as “listed in the issuer’s register”; a CGA entry can be confirmed in principle, but the PDF names no domains, so the domain has to be matched through the CGA’s certificate tool separately. Neither register entry says anything about terms, withdrawal rules or complaint handling – those are checked one by one on each research profile.

Two things make the raw counts misleading if read naively. First, the CGA re-dates an entry when it renews it: 4 of the 16 CGA entries in this window carry a licence number from the 2023–24 round, so they are renewals of licences that already existed. Second, Anjouan issues in batches (6 distinct dates for 110 entries), so a month with a single batch date can look busier or quieter than the underlying pace. The month table below shows both registers side by side; the current month (Oct 2026) is partial because the snapshot was taken on 9 Oct 2026.

What the registers publish differs. The Anjouan list names the domains covered by each licence (106 of 110 new B2C entries name at least one), which is why a new brand becomes visible there before it appears anywhere else. The CGA registry PDF prints licensee, company registration number, type, issue and expiry date and a status – and no domain. The licensee name is often a holding entity rather than a brand name; 53 of the 126 new B2C licensees are identified only by a Costa Rican company number of the form “3-102-…”.

The data

Snapshot of 9 Oct 2026: CGA registry PDF dated 9 Oct 2026, Anjouan register page read the same day. The watch tool is run manually, so the list is exactly as fresh as the snapshot date – a licence issued after it is not here yet. “Days since issue” counts to the snapshot date.

B2B (supplier) licences in the same window

51 entries typed B2B only. Entries typed “B2B & B2C” are in the table above.

Licences per month and register

Counted from the issue date printed in each register for the six calendar months up to the snapshot; an entry typed “B2B & B2C” counts in both columns. CGA figures include renewals (see above).

How we checked

Our licence-watch tool reads two public registers: the CGA online-gambling licence registry (a PDF the authority re-publishes; this snapshot uses the file dated 9 Oct 2026, 615 entries) and the Anjouan licence register (1543 entries). It stores every entry with licence number, licensee, type, issue date, expiry, status and – Anjouan only – domains in a dated snapshot. This page is generated from that snapshot: every entry whose printed issue date falls within 90 days before the snapshot date is a row; B2C and B2B are separated by the type printed in the register; the counts in the text, the tables and the CSV are computed from the same rows. Statuses are shown as printed, with obvious spelling variants of the same status normalised; 1 CGA entry with an unreadable date is excluded. Nothing here is edited by hand, and no commercial data is read. The tool is run manually; each run writes a new snapshot and the page is rebuilt from it.

What this dataset does not show

• A register entry is not a safety signal. It says the licence exists on that date – not that the operator is honest, that withdrawals work, or that the site may serve your country. Under our method an Anjouan entry counts only as “listed in the issuer’s register”, because the body that issues the licence also runs the list.
• A recent CGA date is not always a new casino: the CGA re-dates entries on renewal, and “OGL/…” numbers predate 2025. Read the number together with the date.
• The CGA publishes no domains, so this page cannot tell you which brand a CGA licence covers; the Anjouan domain column is what the register prints, which can lag behind what a site actually uses.
• Freshness equals the snapshot date shown above. Entries issued after it, removed since, or changed in status are not reflected until the next manual run.
• Dates are printed by the registers; where a printed issue date lies after the snapshot date, “days since issue” is shown as 0.
• This page links to no casino. Whether an entry belongs to a casino we cover is shown on that casino’s research profile, not here.

Questions

How many online-gambling licences were issued in the last 90 days?

126 B2C licences by the two registers in this dataset as of 9 Oct 2026: 110 by Anjouan and 16 by the Curaçao Gaming Authority, of which 4 are renewals of pre-2025 CGA licences. A further 51 licences in the window are B2B (supplier) licences.

Which register names the domains a licence covers?

Only Anjouan: 106 of its 110 new B2C entries list at least one domain, 180 domains in total. The CGA registry PDF prints licensee, company number, type, dates and status, but no domain – a CGA licence has to be matched to a site through the authority’s separate certificate check.

Does a new licence mean the casino treats players well?

No. A register entry shows that a licence existed on the snapshot date and nothing more. It does not cover terms, withdrawal rules, complaint handling or whether the site serves your country. In our method a licence is the first check of eight, and an Anjouan entry is recorded as issuer-listed rather than independently confirmed.

How current is this list?

Exactly as current as the snapshot: 9 Oct 2026, using the CGA registry PDF dated 9 Oct 2026 and the Anjouan register page read the same day. The watch tool is run by hand, not on a schedule, so a licence issued after that date is not listed yet.