Early release. B2B reference on regulation and licensing, not gambling or legal advice. Data from the UK Gambling Commission register, read 26 October 2026. Legal review pending.
Methodology · Licences
How we verify gambling licences
We read the regulator's own register files, keep a dated snapshot, and compare each new snapshot with the last one. A licence fact on Kompanion is never older than the snapshot date shown next to it, and a change in licence status appears only after an editor has confirmed it on the official record.
The UK import, step by step
- Fetch. Download the four files the UK Gambling Commission publishes: businesses, licences, domain names, trading names.
- Normalise. Group licence rows by licence number, keep status per activity, lower-case domains, keep dates as the register gives them.
- Compare. Diff against the previous snapshot: new or removed businesses, renamed entities, new, changed or removed licence activities, domains and trading names.
- Route. New domains and trading names are recorded with the qualifier "declared by the business". Status changes, removals and renames go to the review queue.
- Review. An editor checks each queued change on the official record before the update is merged into the site.
- Publish and log. Profiles show the snapshot date and the next check date; every change is kept in a change log.
The latest import
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Job | ukgc-20261026163834 |
| Stage | published (100%) |
| Records read | businesses: 2,633 · licences: 4,505 · domains: 2,224 · tradingNames: 2,412 |
| Changes detected | 0 (0 for review) |
| Errors | 0 |
| Started / finished | 2026-10-26T16:38:34.933Z / 2026-10-26T16:38:54.067Z |
How the counts on our pages are made
- Businesses with an active licence: accounts with at least one activity in status Active.
- Active licences by type: licence numbers with at least one Active activity, by Remote, Non-Remote or Ancillary Remote.
- Active remote licences by activity: Active activity rows under Remote licences.
- Consumer-facing remote licence: an Active Remote activity of Casino, Bingo, Pool Betting or General Betting.
These are Kompanion's counts of the Commission's files, not figures the Commission publishes.
What a register check cannot tell you
- Whether a website really belongs to the licensee: domains are declared by the business.
- Which group owns the licensee.
- Whether the operator complies with its licence conditions day to day.
- Anything about markets other than the regulator's own.
A valid licence is not a quality rating. Profiles never call an operator "reliable" or "unreliable" on the strength of a licence alone.