Betting host: the licence for running somebody else's book
30 records for real events and 30 for virtual ones. A betting host provides facilities for betting between other people, or hosts another operator's betting on its own platform. The host is not necessarily the party you are betting against.
It exists because betting is not always a two-party transaction between a customer and a bookmaker. Somebody has to be permitted to run the venue — physical or electronic — in which other people's bets are made, and that is a different permission from taking the bet yourself.
Sixty records in total makes it one of the rarer activities, but the arrangements it covers are not rare on the sites that use it.
The problem arrives next. The mistake is assuming the company named on the page is the company holding your balance. On a hosted arrangement it frequently is not, and both companies are on the register separately.
What to do with it. If the site is hosted, find out which entity holds the customer funds before depositing. The register will show you both; only the terms of business will tell you which is which.
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- The public register, and what it is evidence of
- Checking whether a betting site is licensed, without taking anybody's word
- What a register cannot tell you, and what people read into it anyway
- Active: what it does and does not guarantee
- Surrendered: the operator handed the licence back
- Revoked, and revoked for non-payment: two different endings