Curacao Licences Past Their Printed Expiry Date

The Curacao Gaming Authority publishes its own list of online gaming licences. We parsed the edition dated 2026-08-14, counted it, and found that 272 of 661 licences, about 41 per cent, carry an expiry date that had already passed on the day the authority published the list, while being shown as something other than expired.

What this means, and what it does not

What the register shows: a date in the expiry column that has passed, and a status field that does not say expired. That is all this page counts, and it is arithmetic on a public document.

What it does not show, and what we are not saying: that any of these licences is invalid, or that any of these companies is operating unlicensed. Almost every entry below is labelled Assessment in progress, which is the authority's own wording and may well mean a renewal is under review with the holder entitled to continue. We have not established that it does not. If you are checking a specific operator, the register is the authority and this page is only a count of it.

We measured against 2026-08-14, the date printed on the register itself, rather than against today. Comparing a dated document to a later clock would inflate the number and deserve the objection.

The count

Casinos we track that cite one of these numbers

The register names companies and licence numbers. It names no websites, so it cannot tell you which casino belongs to which licence. We can close that gap where we hold a casino's licence number, either because the site publishes it or because we followed its seal to the authority's certificate portal and read it there.

A number absent from the register usually has an innocent explanation. Where we read it from a casino's own footer, the footer can be out of date or mistyped, and we publish the count rather than an accusation.

One of them is harder to explain that way. For a casino we track, the authority's own certificate portal serves an active certificate naming licence OGL/2024/550/0264 and the company Momus2006 N.V., registration 138347, granted in December 2024. Neither the licence number, nor the company name, nor the registration number appears anywhere in the register the same authority published on 2026-08-14. We checked the certificate on 2026-08-19. Both documents are the regulator's; we are reporting only that they do not agree, and we do not know which one is out of date.

Every licence in the count

Sorted by how long the printed expiry date had passed. The status column is copied from the register without alteration.

What changed, across 25 editions

2024-07-01 to 2026-08-14. Every row is the authority's own document compared with its own earlier document. Nothing here is our opinion of anyone.

Built from 25 editions of the authority's own PDF, kept in this repository. Appearances of new licences are excluded: two editions reissued the document rather than granting, and counting those as grants would be wrong by hundreds.

How we did this

The source is the authority's own PDF, kept in our repository so the count can be checked against the same file we read. It is parsed by a script that refuses to report a total if any row fails to parse, because silently dropping rows would shrink the number by exactly the entries that are hardest to read. All 661 rows parsed.