The MGA register and URL Checker let anyone verify a Malta licence. Search by URL or legal entity, not brand, and check the seal links out.
The Malta Gaming Authority publishes a register of everyone it licenses, and anyone can search it. Most people never do, because the check looks harder than it is and because the number on the casino's footer looks like proof on its own.
It is not proof. The footer is text the operator typed. The register is the record.
The Licensee Register at mgalicenseeregister.mga.org.mt. The MGA's own description of it says interested parties "can search by licensee name, authorisation status, URL or Gaming Service".
The URL Checker at mgaurlchecker.mga.org.mt. You paste in a web address and it tells you whether that address is authorised. This is the faster of the two and almost nobody knows it exists.
Start with the URL Checker. If the site you are looking at does not come back authorised, you have your answer in about ten seconds.
Searching for the brand.
The name on the website is very often not the name on the licence. Licences are held by legal entities, and one entity can run several brands, so a search for the casino's trading name can return nothing at all while the operator is perfectly legitimate. People read that empty result as a red flag and they are usually wrong.
Search by URL first. If you want to confirm the entity, take the company name from the site's terms and conditions, not the logo, and search that.
A licence number is a record to look up, not a code to decode.
Do not assume you can tell what kind of licence it is from its shape, and do not assume two numbers that look alike belong to related companies. The only safe use of a licence number is to search for it and read what comes back. If the register does not return a record matching the entity named in the terms, the number tells you nothing, however official it looks.
For the same reason, this page does not tell you what the letters inside an MGA licence number stand for. We could not find the MGA's own definition, and guessing at it is exactly the error above.
Four things, in this order.
The MGA says additional information "can also be viewed through the dynamic seal".
The seal on a licensed site should be clickable and should resolve to the MGA's own domain. A seal that is a flat image with no link is decoration. Check where it goes before you trust it.
For the regulator and register in each market this site covers, see which regulator covers which market.
Malta Gaming Authority, Licensee Register. https://www.mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/licensee-register/ and https://mgalicenseeregister.mga.org.mt
Malta Gaming Authority, URL Checker. https://mgaurlchecker.mga.org.mt
| Step | Where | What a pass looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Check the address | mgaurlchecker.mga.org.mt | The URL comes back authorised |
| 2. Find the entity | The site's own terms and conditions | A named company, not just a brand |
| 3. Search the entity | mgalicenseeregister.mga.org.mt | A record with a current status |
| 4. Click the seal | The casino's footer | It resolves to an MGA domain |
Not necessarily, and this is the most common false alarm. Licences are held by legal entities and one entity can operate several brands. Search by URL, or take the company name from the terms and conditions and search that instead.
Treat it as a lookup key and nothing more. Infer nothing from its shape, and do not assume similar-looking numbers are related. Search for it and read the record.
Only if it is live. The MGA says further information can be viewed through the dynamic seal, so a genuine one links out to the MGA. A static image proves nothing.
Quotes about the register and seal are from the MGA's own pages. The search order and what to compare are general guidance. Last reviewed October 15, 2026.