Trends towards Tobique, Curacao cessations and Anjouan additions

[mulven]

Trends Towards Tobique​

One of the trends noticed by myself and others recently has been the migration of vultures (casino curacaotos) towards the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Whilst a few have come from all over (malta, comoros etc) the majority have been of Curaçaoan descent. Whilst I'm expecting this to be just as bad as Anjouan, it will be interesting where it falls on the spectrum.

Unfortunately the licence registrar is opaque, which by contrast is the one thing Anjouan does right, meaning I had to figure out or guess things myself.

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seems to indicate they used to include the URLs but have since abandoned the practice, perhaps at the request of some of their licensees. I've attached what I could find at the bottom.

Some notable companies that I recognised where:

• Mountberg B.V., it appears they have become "Boni Tech Limited", if anyone remembers them (related to gammix/starscream)
• Rabidi/Novaforge appear to be hedging their bets slightly as a couple of their sites are registered here under "Dreamline Ventures".
• Luckywayz limited drops two of its casinos from Curacao to tobique with "Eclipse Interactive" (Starzino, NewLucky)
• Deep Dive Tech B.V. becomes "Moody Moose Limited" for the variants of their brands (playboom, bullcasino,bitdreams, starsplay etc)

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Curacao Cessations​

There have been 23 licence suspensions on the 31st of October. A number of the companies suspended were ones that seemingly renewed in october however the majority of suspensions come to those with expirations in december and beyond.

The last update to the registrar was on the 28th and the enforcement update was on the 31st so the entries will likely get removed in the next edit. It is interesting that some seemingly just renewed their licences in october so perhaps for those, the payments bounced?

The most notable sites are a bunch of the EXTENDY platform ones (jokabet, crystalroll, richroger etc), Trink N.V. (Casoo, Bulletz), Nonce Gaming (wild.io) and Taktonum Group (Weiss).



The trajectory of those suspended is equally split between Anjouan, no obvious change and being possibly defunct.

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Anjouan advances towards 1000 licence holders​

Nearly a year ago today I made a post about the trend towards the Anjouan licence and in the time since they have almost doubled from around 525 licences to 973 today with the milestone of 1000 on track to be passed this month.

The only good thing I can say about this licence is it is fully transparent about which websites each company has, unlike Curacao for example.

 

[conker]

Very interesting study and sadly it has the look of a 'race to the bottom'

 

[dunover]

Gammix, now there's an emetic group.

 

[maxd]

The only good thing I can say about this licence [Anjouan] s it is fully transparent about which websites each company has, unlike Curacao for example.

This is no small thing. Curaçao for instance does not have a searchable licensee list while almost every other licensing jurisdiction does, in one form or another. Curaçao supposedly offers a Search tool but it is broken/not-fit-for-purpose and given that they’ve NEVER made it easy to see who is Curaçao-licensed one suspects that it may be broken on purpose.

The Anjouan Registrar for those who might be interested:

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Please note that the Anjouan Registrar is an ever-evolving thing so what works today may not tomorrow.

- Max

 

[mulven]

This is no small thing. Curaçao for instance does not have a searchable licensee list while almost every other licensing jurisdiction does, in one form or another. Curaçao supposedly offers a Search tool but it is broken/not-fit-for-purpose and given that they’ve NEVER made it easy to see who is Curaçao-licensed one suspects that it may be broken on purpose.

The Anjouan Registrar for those who might be interested:

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.
Please note that the Anjouan Registrar is an ever-evolving thing so what works today may not tomorrow.

- Max

Where is the search feature? Is it behind a login on the portal? I preferred when Anjouan was one big list but the search box is nice I guess. Pain in the arse to parse though

And here is an up to date list of curacao (not including pending/orange licences) to my best efforts.

 

[Valge]

Hi, new here—thanks for the useful thread.

FWIW, the CSGA does publish an official registry now, but only as a PDF. It isn’t searchable, so you have to scan/parse it manually—much less convenient than Anjouan’s online register. I’ve attached the PDF below.

 

[mulven]

Hi, new here—thanks for the useful thread.

FWIW, the CSGA does publish an official registry now, but only as a PDF. It isn’t searchable, so you have to scan/parse it manually—much less convenient than Anjouan’s online register. I’ve attached the PDF below.

Thanks for the reply.

That is actually what I've been using for the basis of my non-orange curacao stuff. Back when I first started recording the PDF was very new and most of my information came from bruteforcing google search indexing but as more applications were approved the PDF became more useful. Still have to go digging to find the "pending" licences but I've been checking and parsing this pdf every week for the last year or so.

Theres probably a better way to do it but I just paste it into notepad++ and delete the lines that have the page numbers and then its ready to be pasted into my sheet and compared to find out the additions and subtractions.

 

[Valge]

Thanks for the reply.

That is actually what I've been using for the basis of my non-orange curacao stuff. Back when I first started recording the PDF was very new and most of my information came from bruteforcing google search indexing but as more applications were approved the PDF became more useful. Still have to go digging to find the "pending" licences but I've been checking and parsing this pdf every week for the last year or so.

Theres probably a better way to do it but I just paste it into notepad++ and delete the lines that have the page numbers and then its ready to be pasted into my sheet and compared to find out the additions and subtractions.

If you want to avoid the manual cleanup, Tabula can export the PDF table straight to CSV. It’s simple to use and cuts a few steps.

 

[mulven]

Looks like a lot of Softswiss sites are going to Anjouan licences to save a buck. Kingbilly for example.

 

[Valge]

It’s basically the path of least resistance if you need a licence badge on the footer quickly.

Looks like a lot of Softswiss sites are going to Anjouan licences to save a buck. Kingbilly for example.

 

[Casinos Hate Winners]

Nice post. Too bad the tables aren't accessible and I can't seem to request them.
Gammix... I remember those guys with the Malta license. Actually won something there

Same pattern as when everyone fled Malta for Curacao to dodge regulations, now they're leaving Curacao for Anjouan

 

[walkingdead98]

I have an issue with; TwinVegas casino , stole my money. Anyone able to locate anything about them ?

 

[mulven]

I have an issue with; TwinVegas casino , stole my money. Anyone able to locate anything about them ?

twinvegas.io since you visited from canada (twinvegas.com is blocked).

They are Boni Tech, ex-Mountberg. What happened.

 

[Casinos Hate Winners]

twinvegas.io since you visited from canada (twinvegas.com is blocked).

They are Boni Tech, ex-Mountberg. What happened.

Would be awesome to have all that data aggregated in one place

 

[Valge]

Would be awesome to have all that data aggregated in one place

That would definitely be useful, but as far as I’m aware, there isn’t one single “master database” for this. A lot of it is fragmented by jurisdiction and depends on what each local regulator actually publishes (some have searchable registers, some only PDFs, some almost nothing).

 

[mulven]

That would definitely be useful, but as far as I’m aware, there isn’t one single “master database” for this. A lot of it is fragmented by jurisdiction and depends on what each local regulator actually publishes (some have searchable registers, some only PDFs, some almost nothing).

I have as much information as possible for Curacao, Anjouan, Malta, Tobique, Estonia, Isle of Man, Alderney, Gibraltar, Antigua, Ireland, UK. I haven't gathered any for non-english speaking local markets such as netherlands, italy, scandi etc.

I don't think I'm allowed to link to a centralised source due to shilling.