Why this site checks licences and still names no bookmaker
Everything on these pages is a method: which register to read, which column answers which question, and what each value means. None of it is a recommendation, because a recommendation is where the conflict starts and the method is what survives without one.
A service that recommends an operator is almost always paid by one, and revenue-share arrangements pay more the more the referred customer loses. Removing the recommendation removes the conflict, and it costs the reader nothing that a register lookup does not give them for free.
It also ages better. A ranked list is wrong within a month; how to read a licence status is the same next year.
Here is the catch. The reflex is to read the absence of a recommendation as a gap. It is the product: somebody who can check a licence themselves does not need to be told which operator to trust.
What to do with it. Use the method on whatever operator you were already considering. That is the whole intended use, and it works the same for one you found here and one you found in an advert.
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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