The licenses in this table come from two authorities

No number is not the same as a bad number

One cell in the license column of the bitcoin casino Korea comparison is empty. It reads “no number”.

That is not a statement that the operator is unlicensed. It is a statement that the document we read contained no number.

Those two sentences are different claims, and the second one cannot be made without material from the authority’s side.

The mistake runs the other way too. A number that is present is often treated as the end of the check. It is the thing that makes a check possible, not its result.

Whether the number exists in the register, and whether the domain tied to it is the domain in your address bar, are two further questions.

What a register can actually confirm

Registers tend to hold the same short list: the number, the name of the company holding it, a status, and — depending on the authority — the domains covered.

The company name is the most useful of those. The brand on the homepage and the company in the register are frequently not the same string, and a dispute is with the company. Where the company actually sits sets out the order to do that comparison in.

Where a domain list is published, one more thing becomes checkable: whether the address you arrived at is on it. Brands run several addresses, and it is not unusual for only some of them to fall inside the permission.

What a license does not reach

A license works inside the jurisdiction that granted it. Nothing in the Curaçao or Anjouan conditions creates a right for a reader in Korea.

Dispute handling is the clearest case. Where a license condition names a complaints route, that route runs on the authority’s procedure, in the authority’s language and under the authority’s law.

Getting a domestic court to enforce the outcome is a separate matter again.

Which Korean statutes exist in this area, and whom each one addresses, is set out on the law page.

How a license enters the score

This site scores verifiability rather than the bare existence of a permission. Where a number is printed and its format matches the issuing authority’s, the field counts as confirmed.

Where no number is printed, the field is missing rather than zero. A missing field neither adds nor subtracts, which stops an operator from gaining by publishing less.

The reasoning is in how the ranking is scored.

One more thing. A confirmed license says nothing about payout speed or how strict the identity checks are.

Those come out of the terms, not out of the register, and they are handled in identity checks and withdrawal limits.

What a status string does and does not say

A status is usually printed next to the number. In our table, nine rows hold a status in some form; on the tenth that field is empty as well.

The wording is not standardized. Four read Active, four read valid, and one carries our own confirmation note.

They look interchangeable, but authorities word them differently and the same authority changes its wording between renewals. That is why the value is not used as a scoring field here.

Dates sit beside the status, and they deserve the same reading. On 13 September 2026 the Anjouan register listed ALSI-202509013-FI1, held by Zentari Limitada for duckdice.io, as Valid with an expiry of 15 September 2026, and ALSI-152406029-FI2, held by RBGAMING N.V. for rainbet.com, as Valid until 13 June 2027. The same register gave ALSI-132405042-FI3, held by Pixel Entertainment Limited for empire.io, the status Valid while printing 27 May 2026 as its expiry, a date already past on the day of the lookup. On the Curaçao side, the certificates for shuffle.com (Natural Nine B.V., OGL/2024/1337/0628) and wild.io (Nonce Gaming B.V., OGL/2024/210/0198) read Active that day.

Active also does not mean that the license covers the domain in front of you. A status attaches to a number; the domain is a separate entry. Checking one without the other leaves a reader reassured by a single line.