Revoked casino licences on the Curaçao certificate page and what to check next

Where revoked casino licences show up

The Curaçao Gaming Authority keeps a public portal at cert.cga.cw. Its search accepts a domain or a company name; a licence number typed into the box does not bring up the record. From the results you open a page titled Certificate of Operation.

That page carries a small set of fields:

• the company that holds the certificate;
• the licence number, in the OGL format;
• the issue date;
• the status, shown as Active or Revoked;
• the domains attached to the certificate.

There is a further state for a single address. When a domain has been taken off a certificate, that domain shows «Not Active», even if the company's certificate as a whole continues. So a status can belong to the whole permission or to one web address, and the two are worth telling apart.

What Revoked means on that page

Revoked is the authority's own label for a certificate it has withdrawn. Read it literally. It is a statement about the permission as recorded by the issuer on the day you look. It is not a comment on anyone's balance or account, and the portal does not explain the reason.

Two practical points follow from that:

1. The word replaces Active, it does not sit beside it. A record that says Revoked is not a record in good standing with a note attached.
2. Only the issuer's page settles it. A footer badge, a press item or a third-party list can repeat an older status for months. The certificate page is where the current wording lives.

Curaçao also publishes a register as a PDF on cga.cw. That document has no domain column and can disagree with the portal, so when you need the status of a particular address, the portal record is the stronger source. For the full lookup sequence, see our guide to licence numbers and certificates.

Five revoked casino licences in Curaçao

Five Curaçao certificates are shown with the status Revoked in the authority's records:

• BC.Game — revoked;
• Bets.io — revoked;
• BetRiot — revoked;
• Casinoly — revoked;
• Zet Casino — revoked.

That status is the only fact this page reports about those five names. They are not part of our comparison, they are not suggestions, and nothing here describes their games, cashiers or terms. They appear so that you can recognize the pattern: a familiar brand, a number that once meant permission, and a certificate page that now says otherwise.

Why an old number can stay in a footer

Footers are ordinary page text. An operator writes them once and edits them when it chooses. Nothing obliges the page to update itself when a certificate changes, so a badge can go on showing a number whose record reads Revoked.

Other ways the gap appears:

• Copied templates. A group running several brands may reuse one footer across addresses, including ones that were never on the certificate.
• Terms written earlier. The licence clause is often among the oldest paragraphs in a set of terms. Bitsler, for instance, still words its number as an application in its terms, although the certificate, issued on 22 July 2024, listed bitsler.com on 12 September 2026. The same lag can run the other way, with a withdrawn certificate still presented as current.
• Several addresses. A brand can be reachable on more than one domain while the certificate lists only some of them, and a removed domain shows «Not Active». Vave's number, for example, listed only vavegame.com on 12 September 2026; vave.com was not on it.

None of these explanations tells you which one applies to a given site. They only explain why the footer and the record can differ, and why the record wins.

What to check next time

A status can move in either direction between two visits, so treat every lookup as dated. A short routine:

1. Find the record by domain. Enter the exact address you use on cert.cga.cw, not the brand name alone.
2. Read the status line first. Active, Revoked, or «Not Active» for that domain.
3. Compare the company. The holder on the certificate should match the company named in the terms. When it does not, our page on who runs a casino shows how to read a mismatch.
4. Note the issue date and the number. Write both down with the day you looked.
5. Repeat before a large deposit. A record read last month is last month's record.

For the wider set of checks that sit around this one, including identity clauses and withdrawal caps, see the five-step pre-deposit list.

When your own casino shows Revoked

If a certificate you rely on now reads Revoked, the calm response is to gather facts before acting. Save a screenshot of the certificate page with the date visible, copy the relevant clauses from the terms, and note your balance. Our page on withdrawal caps helps you see how a larger balance would be paid out under the terms you agreed to. Decide on further deposits only after you have read the record yourself.

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