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The register in 10 languages

The findings are the same everywhere: 14 operators, 73 documented contradictions, 10 licences of 14 confirmed in an issuing register. What changes is the question each market is actually asking. Denmark asks about ROFUS, Germany asks about OASIS, the Netherlands asks about CRUKS, Japan asks whether any of this is legal at all. Each market is written against its own terms and its own regulator, not translated from the English pages.

Dansk

Regulator: Spillemyndigheden - ROFUS self-exclusion register; NemID/MitID identity gate

Italiano

Regulator: ADM (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli), still queried under its former name AAMS - 'non AAMS' IS the query

Svenska

Regulator: Spelinspektionen + Spelpaus.se (national self-exclusion) - both are literal query tokens

Magyar

Regulator: SZTFH (Szabalyozott Tevekenysegek Felugyeleti Hatosaga) - queried indirectly via 'legalis' / 'kulfoldi' rather than by name

Español

Regulator: DGOJ (Direccion General de Ordenacion del Juego) + RGIAJ self-exclusion register - queried as 'sin licencia' / 'sin verificacion'

日本語

Regulator: None - online casino is unlicensed and legally grey in Japan, which is why 'ihou' (illegal) is the second-biggest head term. The absence of a regulator is the content angle.

Suomi

Regulator: Veikkaus monopoly, transitioning to a Finnish licensing regime; tax-exemption for EEA-licensed operators is the current query hook ('verovapaa')

Nederlands

Regulator: Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) + CRUKS central exclusion register - CRUKS is the literal query

Deutsch

Regulator: GGL (Gemeinsame Gluecksspielbehoerde der Laender) + OASIS national exclusion register - OASIS IS the query

Polski

Regulator: Ministry of Finance monopoly (Totalizator Sportowy) with the Rejestr Domen Zakazanych block list - no consumer-facing register name in the query vocabulary, which is why 'bez weryfikacji' substitutes for it

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