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Anjouan gambling licences

What the regime is

Anjouan, part of the Union of the Comoros, licenses under the Computer Gaming Licensing Act 007 of 2005 via Anjouan Licensing Services. Licences carry an ALSI reference and can be checked through a validator that returns the licensee name, registered website and operating status.

What recourse it actually gives you

The validator confirms a licence exists and names the licensee, which is useful for identifying who you are actually playing with, and it is the whole of what the regime offers a player holding a complaint. That is why the scoring formula weights an Anjouan authority below a Curacao one: a register with no published complaints route and no visible enforcement record buys a player less. Beyond identity, practical recourse is limited. There is no established complaints process comparable to a European regulator, and the licence excludes a long list of territories that operators do not always enforce.

Operators on the register under this jurisdiction

How a complaint actually works under this regime

There is no published player complaints procedure comparable to a European regulator, so the realistic route is the operator first and the licensing body second, with no expectation of a determination. Write to the operator citing the clause and the timestamps, and keep everything. If that fails, the licensing body can be contacted, but a player should treat any response as supervisory rather than as adjudication.

What the Anjouan validator does give you is identity, and identity is worth more than it sounds. It returns the licensee name, the registered website and the operating status, which tells you which legal entity you are actually dealing with. Several operators on this register name different owning companies, in different countries, across documents that are all live at once. The validator settles which one holds the licence.

One trap is worth knowing before drawing any conclusion from a negative result. Some validators return invalid or not found for any bare domain queried without the operator’s own seal token, which is how the tool is built and not evidence the operator is unlicensed. Test the validator against an operator you already know is licensed before recording a negative.

What the enforcement record shows

Anjouan licenses under the Computer Gaming Licensing Act 007 of 2005 through Anjouan Licensing Services, and licences carry an ALSI reference. The validator is the whole of the public-facing accountability: it returns a status, and a licence that has lapsed or been withdrawn stops validating. That is a real check and it is the only one.

There is no public sanctions register, no published series of enforcement decisions, and no record a player can read to judge how the body behaves when an operator fails to pay. Judging the regime from outside is therefore limited to whether the validator agrees with the operator’s footer.

The licence excludes a long list of territories. Operators do not always enforce those exclusions at signup, which means an account can be opened, funded and played from a territory the licence does not cover, and the exclusion then surfaces at the withdrawal. A player in that position has a weak complaint, because the operator can point at its own terms.

What this licence does not cover

No deposit protection, no segregation requirement a player can rely on, and no compensation scheme. If the operator fails, the balance goes with it.

No binding dispute resolution. Nothing in the regime produces an enforceable order to pay a specific player.

The licence says nothing about the terms. Withdrawal caps, instalment clauses for large wins, discretionary verification with no published trigger and open-ended investigation clauses all sit undisturbed beneath an Anjouan licence, and several are documented on this register.

How to check a licence yourself

Find the licence number in the operator’s footer or terms, then look for it in the issuing authority’s own register instead of trusting the footer. If the authority publishes no queryable register, the licence cannot be confirmed by anyone, including us, and that is worth knowing before you deposit.

A number that does not appear in a register is not proof of anything on its own. Registers go offline, get rebuilt, and sometimes lag renewals by months. What it does mean is that there is no independent confirmation available to you, and no third party to complain to.

The register records which operators hold a licence under this regime and whether it could be found where the authority publishes. The procedure for doing that yourself is in the guide to checking a licence, the operators whose licence was confirmed are on the verified-licence list, and the specific Curacao registry conflict is documented at the Curacao licence status page.

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