How to Verify a Curaçao Gaming Licence: Four CGA Checks

To verify a Curaçao gaming licence, take the licence number from the site, find it in the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s Online Gaming License Registry, compare the licensee, dates and status, then check the CGA’s Enforcement Register for the same number. The registry is dated October 2, 2026, and the CGA says its overviews do not guarantee current validity.

That last clause is the whole post in miniature. This desk read the CGA’s license register page, its homepage, its certification site at cert.cga.cw, and the three register PDFs linked from it on 8 October 2026. This is an evergreen method; the documents it points at are dated, and the dates matter more than the method.

How to verify a Curaçao gaming licence: the four documents

The CGA’s license register page lists four overviews: land-based casinos, online gaming licences, certificates, and an enforcement register. Above them sits the sentence most verification guides skip. The overviews, the CGA says, “do not guarantee the current validity of the licenses, as the licensing status of the entities may vary over time. Therefore, no rights can be derived from these overviews.”

Read that as an auditor would. The regulator is telling you its own list is a snapshot with no legal weight. A match is evidence that a number appeared on a document dated a certain day. It is not a certificate of good standing, and nothing on the page read pretends otherwise.

Three of the four documents bear on an online operator. The fourth, the seal service, lives on a separate site. Here is what each can and cannot carry.

Step 1: what does the Curaçao seal on a casino site prove?

The CGA runs a certification site at cert.cga.cw. As read on 8 October 2026, its navigation carries a Certification Policy, an Online Gaming License Register link, and separate pages headed B2C Certification Seal and B2B Certification Seal. The homepage text adds one line: operators licensed under the CGA “need to adhere to stringent requirements.”

That is as far as the pages read go. They do not explain, in the text this desk saw, what a seal displays when clicked or how a reader should tell a genuine one from a copy. So the post makes no claim about either.

What follows is this desk’s reasoning, not CGA advice. A seal is an image, and an image can be copied. If clicking it leads nowhere, or to a page on the casino’s own domain, it has verified nothing the casino did not write itself. Treat the seal as a pointer to step 2, never as the check.

Step 2: how do you check a Curaçao licence number in the registry?

The Online Gaming License Registry is a 20-page PDF, each page footed Last updated October 2, 2026. Its columns are License number, Licensee, Company type, Company registration number, Issued, Expires and Status license.

1. Copy the licence number from the site’s footer or its terms and conditions. Use the number, not the brand: the registry’s columns carry company names and no brand or URL field.
2. Search the PDF for that exact number. A near miss is a miss.
3. Compare the Licensee cell with the operating company named in the site’s terms. Same number, different company, is a finding.
4. Read the Issued and Expires cells against today’s date, then read the status cell.
5. Note the registry’s own date. A match proves the number appeared on the October 2, 2026 edition. It says nothing about the days since.

Reading the registry’s number formats

The numbers come in four prefixes. By this desk’s text extraction of the PDF, the 666 numbered rows carry 665 distinct licence numbers, and every row’s number begins with one of these.

The registry does not explain what each segment of the number encodes, and this desk will not guess. What matters for verification is the whole string, matched character for character.

Reading the registry’s dates and status column

Row 1, as the October 2, 2026 registry prints it: CGA/2025/710/1314, Trinity Gaming N.V., company type B2B, registration number 163473, issued 30-Sep-26, expires 31-Mar-27, with nothing in the status cell in the text this desk extracted. That is the registry’s entry, quoted with its date and under the CGA’s no-rights disclaimer; it is not this desk’s assessment of the company.

The rows read at the top of the document run six months from issue to expiry: 30-Sep-26 to 31-Mar-27, 24-Sep-26 to 24-Mar-27. That is an observation about the rows read, not a rule the registry states, so check the dates on the row in front of you rather than assuming a term.

The status column is where the document gets talkative. In this desk’s extraction, “Assessment in progress” appears 281 times, “Expired” 58 times and “Revoked” 49 times. Many other rows leave the status cell blank. The registry does not say what a blank means, and this post will not say it for the registry. An expiry date in the past, or a status reading Expired or Revoked, is a plain answer. “Assessment in progress” is not an answer at all; the document does not define it on the pages read.

Step 3: the certificates list is not a licence list

The third PDF is easy to misread. Its title is “List of Certificate Holders according to article 5.17 of the National Ordinance on Games of Chance (LOK)”, last updated August 31, 2026, and it holds 12 entries. None is a casino.

Five are certified for the purpose of test labs: Gaming Associates Europe, Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), eCOGRA, Quinel and BMM Spain Testlabs. Seven are certified for alternative dispute resolution, among them Resolvo Curaçao, ADR Curaçao, Cadre and IBAS. Each certificate runs three years from its effective date; GLI’s, for instance, runs January 30, 2026 to January 30, 2029.

Two uses for a reader. First, a site that cites a test lab’s name in its footer is citing a supplier of testing, not a licence; the lab’s certificate says nothing about the operator. Second, if a site names a dispute-resolution body, this list shows whether that body holds a CGA certificate as of August 31, 2026. Whether a given operator must use one is not something the list states, and this desk did not read the rule.

Step 4: has the licence been revoked? The Enforcement Register

The Enforcement Register, two pages, last updated September 14, 2026, is the shortest document and the most candid. Its header says it “currently focuses solely on actions that affect the status of a license”, that it “does not include all enforcement measures taken by the CGA”, and that it “may not always be fully accurate or up to date, and no rights can be derived from its contents.”

In the edition read, 31 entries carry the status Revoked and one, Bellona N.V., reads Not extended by the CGA, effective June 25, 2025. No entry reads Suspended. The first entries on page 1 carry effective dates of May 22, July 10 and July 9, 2026, all OGL/2024 numbers.

Search it for the same number you found in the registry. A hit here outranks a clean-looking registry row, and the two documents carry different dates: September 14 for this one, October 2 for the registry. Absence from this register proves only absence from this register, which by its own account is partial.

Putting the four checks together

Run them in order and write down what each returned, with the document’s own date beside it: the seal led to a cert.cga.cw page or it did not; the number matched a registry row dated October 2, 2026 or it did not; the licensee matched the terms; the expiry date is in the future; the status cell said what it said; the Enforcement Register dated September 14, 2026 does or does not list the number. That record is the deliverable. It is not proof that a site is safe, and the CGA says its overviews confer no rights. It is evidence, dated, which is the most any of these documents offers.

The register page lists a fourth overview, land-based casinos, which this desk did not read; it does not bear on an online check.

Can you verify a Curaçao licence through the CGA portal right now?

Not as of this read. The CGA homepage, read on 8 October 2026, opens with an “IMPORTANT NOTICE” that “The CGA online gaming portal is offline”, pointing to an item headed “CGA to transition to a new regulatory platform”. Its recently added list also carries two press releases about unauthorized access to the online gaming portal. This desk did not read those releases or the transition item, so the post gives no cause, start date or return date for the outage. The PDFs above remained downloadable on 8 October 2026; our Curaçao licence cost post covers what the portal handles for applicants.

How do I tell if a Curaçao gaming licence is fake?

The CGA pages read publish no guide to spotting a false claim, so treat this as the desk’s checklist, built from what the documents can show:

• The number is not in the registry, or matches only approximately.
• The licensee in the registry is not the company named in the site’s terms.
• The expiry date has passed, or the status reads Expired or Revoked.
• The number appears in the Enforcement Register.
• The seal links to a page on the casino’s own domain rather than the CGA’s.

None of these is proof of fraud on its own; registries lag and companies rename. Each is a reason to stop and ask the operator in writing, and to keep the answer.

How the Curaçao check compares with Kahnawake

The method has the same skeleton as our Kahnawake three-check walkthrough: a register match, a seal that should lead somewhere independent, and a route for when things go wrong. The difference is the unit of record. Kahnawake’s permit list, as that post read it, is sortable by URL; the CGA registry lists companies and numbers, so the work of tying a website to an entry falls on the reader. Both regulators date their lists, and both lists can trail reality. How the two offshore regimes weigh as evidence more broadly is in our Anjouan vs Curaçao comparison.

Frequently asked questions

How do you check a Curaçao casino licence number?

Copy the number from the site’s footer or terms, open the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s Online Gaming License Registry PDF from its license register page, and search for it. Compare the licensee name, the issued and expiry dates and the status column. Then search the Enforcement Register for the same number. A match is a dated entry, not a guarantee.

How do I tell if a Curaçao gaming licence is fake?

The CGA publishes no fake-spotting guide on the pages read here, so these are this desk’s checks: the number is missing from the registry, the licensee differs from the company in the site’s terms, the expiry date has passed, the status reads Expired or Revoked, or the number appears in the Enforcement Register. Any one of those is a reason to stop.

Who issues Curaçao gambling licences now?

The Curaçao Gaming Authority. Its homepage, read on 8 October 2026, describes it as the regulator for the online gaming industry under the National Ordinance on Games of Chance (LOK). Every one of the 666 rows in its registry dated October 2, 2026 carries a licence number beginning OGL/ or CGA/.

This desk names no site as safe and recommends none; a registry row is a dated fact, not an endorsement. Gambling is for adults and the losses are real, a crypto balance can lose value while a dispute is still open, and nothing here is financial advice.