A licence seal is an image file. It resolves to a real register entry or it does not, and the difference takes under two minutes to establish.
This is a narrower question than whether a licence is any good. It is simply whether the thing in the footer corresponds to anything at all.
The Resolve Test, Step by Step
Five steps, and the second one ends a surprising number of enquiries.
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Find the number and the operating entity. Scroll past the badge and look for the licence number and the name of the company holding it. Both should be printed in the footer or the terms. A seal with no number and no named entity has already answered your question.
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Check the licence number format against the jurisdiction. Every regulator issues in a fixed format. Malta uses the form MGA/CRP/543/2018. Curaçao's reformed regime issues CGA/2025/875/1301 or OGL/2024/1585/0822. Anjouan uses ALSI-202504011-FI1. A footer claiming one jurisdiction while displaying a number in none of its formats has invented it, and no lookup is required to know that.
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Open the regulator's own site directly. Type the address yourself. A link supplied by the casino can point anywhere, including to a convincing replica.
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Search and read the status. Public register listings record revoked and expired entries alongside active ones, so the presence of a record is not the same as a current licence. Check the licence status field and the expiry date.
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Match all three details. The legal entity match must hold: the name in the register must match the company named in the footer and terms. The licence number must match exactly. And the domain you are playing on must appear against that licence, since one company can hold a licence covering some brands and not others.
Step five is where the more sophisticated fakes fail. A genuine licence number belonging to a real operator, displayed by an unrelated website, passes a lazy check and fails this one.
Six Platforms and What They Publish
Ranked on how easily the seal resolves for a reader running the test above.
1. Dexsport
Dexsport publishes an Anjouan licence, and the Anjouan register happens to be the most convenient of the major offshore registers to search.
It accepts a domain search, so you can enter dexsport.io directly without needing the company name first. The result returns the holder's registered name, the licence number, whether the licence is B2C or B2B, and the current status. That covers steps four and five in a single lookup.
Worth quoting the authority's own framing, because it is the right way to read any register result: verification confirms that a licence exists and its current status, and does not constitute an endorsement of the holder's services or business practices.
2. Cloudbet
Operating since 2013 with its company named on a Curacao licence, which is the detail that matters for step five.
A publicly named operating entity makes the three-way match straightforward, and a long trading history under the same name is itself a signal that the entity has not been reshuffled.
3. Stake
A large operator holding market-specific licences in several jurisdictions alongside its offshore position.
Multiple licences complicate the test slightly, since the one governing your access depends on where you are. Check which entity and which licence covers the domain you are actually using.
4. BC.Game
Trading for years under Curacao licensing, with the reform-era transition applying as it does to every operator in that jurisdiction.
Curacao's move to direct licensing means entries now carry named beneficial owners, so a current register record tells you more than an older sublicence ever did.
5. Mega Dice
Telegram-first access with a published licensing position, though documentation across its terms is thinner than at the larger platforms.
Run the full five steps here instead of the abbreviated version.
6. Vave
Multi-coin funding across a conventional catalogue, with a licensing position that requires more effort to pin down than the platforms above.
Where a seal takes real work to resolve, that difficulty is itself part of the answer.
What a Resolving Seal Does Not Tell You
The honest limit, and it is a large one.
A seal that resolves proves a licence exists. It says nothing about the strength of the regime that issued it, and each offshore regime varies enormously in what it demands and what recourse they offer.
Anjouan sits below reformed Curacao and well below Malta or the United Kingdom on segregated player funds, mandatory responsible gambling tools and binding dispute resolution. Dexsport's licence resolves cleanly and is light, and both facts are true simultaneously.
So the resolve test is a filter, not a verdict. It removes operators displaying fiction, which is a real category and the one most likely to take your money outright, and regime strength is the separate question that decides what happens when a legitimate dispute arises.
Two Minutes, Every Platform
Run it before depositing anywhere, including on platforms you have read about favourably.
Fake licence seals have become the fastest-growing category of casino fraud, and they cluster in three shapes:
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A seal linking nowhere at all
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A seal linking to the regulator's homepage instead of the specific record
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A genuine number registered to a different company
All three fail the test above, and they rarely appear alone.
Confirm what is legal where you live, keep stakes within a set budget, and play only if you are of legal age, since KYC or AML checks may apply.
Responsible gambling tooling is mandated under strict regimes and left to operator discretion under lighter ones, which is one more reason the tier matters after the seal resolves.
Disclaimer: The information here is provided for general purposes only and is not legal, tax, investment, or financial advice. Licence formats, register contents and operator positions change, so verify current details with the relevant authority directly. A resolving licence does not guarantee any particular standard of service. Betting carries risk, and rules vary by country, so check the law where you live. Please gamble responsibly, within your means, and only if you are of legal age.
