We Read All 660 Entries in Curaçao's Gaming Register

TL;DR

Curaçao's online gaming register, in the edition dated 22 July 2026, listed 660 licences. We read every entry. 263 of them — 39.8% — showed an expiry date that had already passed, while the register marked them neither expired nor revoked. Fifteen days later we read the new edition end to end. Still 660 rows — but 83 entries that had a blank status in July now carry one: 79 moved to “Assessment in progress”, 4 to “Revoked”. Eight of the operators we track appear in the register; all eight licence numbers check out, character for character.

What we did

The Curaçao Gaming Authority publishes its Online Gaming License Registry as a PDF — 26 pages in the current edition — linked from a single page on cga.cw. It is a public document that almost nobody reads end to end, because reading it end to end means extracting a table out of a PDF.

We extracted it. Twice: the edition dated 22 July 2026 (660 rows, read 26–28 July) and the edition dated 6 August 2026 (660 rows, read 8 August). Every row carries the same seven columns the register defines: licence number, licensee, company type, company registration number, issued date, expiry date, and status.

Method note: the July counts were made row by row, by hand, in two passes. The August counts were machine-extracted from the PDF's text layer and verified by two independent counting methods that agree exactly.

What the register said on 22 July

Two numbers carry the story.

263 entries showed an expiry date in the past. That is 224 marked “Assessment in progress” plus 39 with a blank status field. None of them was marked expired. None was marked revoked. Four out of every ten licences in the register were past the date the register itself printed next to them.

193 entries have no expiry date at all. The column says N/A and the status says Indefinite. Just under a third of the register has no stated end.

Does a passed date mean those operators are unlicensed?

No, and we are not going to say that it does.

“Assessment in progress” most likely refers to Curaçao's transition to its new licensing regime under the LOK, in force since November 2023: holders of older permissions apply for a licence under the new law, and a pending assessment may lawfully extend the permission past the printed date. We have not confirmed that reading — confirming it would take an answer from the regulator, and we will seek one.

So the finding is stated exactly as far as the evidence goes: the register shows 263 entries whose printed expiry date has passed and whose status is neither expired nor revoked. What that means for any individual licence holder is a question for the regulator.

This is the difference between reading a register and interpreting one. We did the first.

Fifteen days later, we read it again

Registers move. Between our two reads, the register went through at least one intermediate edition — our weekly read of the 29 July edition logged 637 rows. By 6 August it was back to 660. Same total, different register:

The movement reconciles to zero: 83 entries that carried no status in July now carry one — 79 went to “Assessment in progress”, 4 to “Revoked”. The transition is visibly being processed, edition by edition.

Two more things changed. 33 entries now carry licence numbers in a new format — CGA/… instead of OGL/… — the first grants numbered under the new regime's own series. And the revocation entries now spell out their reason verbatim; the most common wording is “Revoked as of {date}, at the request of the operator.”

One licence number, two companies

Row 349 of the 6 August edition: OGL/2024/1397/0784, Grrr Tech B.V., company type B2B, registration number 166739. Row 355 of the same edition: OGL/2024/1397/0784 — the same licence number — Olympus Holdings N.V., company type B2C, registration number 161166.

One number, two different companies, two different registration numbers, two different licence types. We do not know whether this is a typo or two permissions genuinely sharing a number, and the register does not say. We record what the document prints. It is the only licence number in the register that appears twice; the other 658 are unique.

Eight operators we track, checked character for character

Eight operators in our catalogue publish Curaçao licence numbers that we hold on file. We checked each against the 6 August edition. All eight are in the register, and every field matches our records exactly.

Three of these — Stake, Rollbit, Roobet — we had already checked in the 22 July edition. Fifteen days later their rows are unchanged, character for character. That is worth saying plainly, because it is the outcome we found, not the one that makes a better headline.

Three of the eight sit among the 263 past-date entries. So do 260 other licence holders.

The number that is not a licence number

While checking, we confirmed something that trips up almost every list of “crypto casino licences” published elsewhere.

Rollbit's site shows 157086. Roobet's shows 157205. These are company registration numbers, not licence numbers — the register has a separate column for each, and the two sit side by side. A number lifted from a website footer and labelled “licence” is, more often than we expected, the company's registration in the commercial register.

We had this wrong ourselves earlier and corrected it. The correction is in our public log.

What we are doing with this

Every licence claim on an operator profile now shows where the number came from. When we have confirmed it against the regulator's own register, the profile says so, names the source and gives the date we read it. When we only have the operator's word for it, the profile says that instead.

That distinction is the whole product, and this register is why it exists.

Sources

• Curaçao Gaming Authority — Online Gaming License Registry, edition dated 22 July 2026 (PDF, 25 pages). Read in full 26–28 July 2026.

• Same registry, edition dated 6 August 2026 (PDF, 26 pages). Read in full 8 August 2026.

• Same registry, edition dated 29 July 2026 — row count logged by our weekly register read.

• Curaçao Gaming Authority — License register index page (cga.cw). Read 8 August 2026.

• Operator sites for published licence numbers. Read 25 July – 8 August 2026.