There is no international gambling licence. Who regulates Malta, the UK, Spain, Denmark and Germany, and where to check each register.
There is no such thing as an international gambling licence. Every licence is a permission to offer gambling in one jurisdiction, granted by that jurisdiction's regulator, and checked in that jurisdiction's register.
This page is the index: who regulates each market this site covers, and where their register is.
A licence answers one question: may this operator offer gambling here.
So the only register worth searching is the one for the market you are playing from. An operator holding a Malta licence is licensed in Malta. That tells you nothing about whether it may lawfully take your bet in Spain, Denmark or Germany, each of which licenses operators itself.
This is why operators hold several licences at once, and why the same brand can be legitimate in one country and unavailable in the next.
The Malta Gaming Authority licenses both operators and the studios that supply games, which is why a game supplier can carry an MGA number without running a casino. It is the only regulator in this list publishing a URL checker, which makes it the quickest market to verify. The step by step check is in how to check an MGA licence yourself.
The Gambling Commission publishes a public register of licence holders. Britain also runs the strictest product rules of the markets here, including the credit card ban in force since 14 April 2020 and the technical standards that govern jackpots and random number generation.
The DGOJ licenses by activity, with general licences for a type of gambling and singular licences for specific games inside it. Spain also sets detailed technical requirements on what operators must record about players, covered on its own page. The register check is in how to check a DGOJ licence in Spain.
Spillemyndigheden publishes its licence holders in English, and keeps operators, slot machine licence holders and game suppliers on separate lists. Checking the wrong list is the usual source of confusion. Which list to use is in how to check a Danish Spillemyndigheden licence.
Germany's Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder publishes a Whitelist of permitted providers. Licensed German sites carry a seal reading "GGL staatlich erlaubt und beaufsichtigt", which indicates a provider the authority permits and supervises.
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
UK Gambling Commission Public Register. https://registers.gamblingcommission.gov.uk
Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego, Buscador de operadores. https://www.ordenacionjuego.es/operadores-juego/operadores-licencia/operadores
Spillemyndigheden, List of licence holders. https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en/licence-holders
Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder, Whitelist. https://www.gluecksspiel-behoerde.de/de/fuer-spielende/uebersicht-erlaubter-anbieter-whitelist
| Market | Regulator | Where to check |
|---|---|---|
| Malta | Malta Gaming Authority | mgalicenseeregister.mga.org.mt, plus a URL checker at mgaurlchecker.mga.org.mt |
| United Kingdom | Gambling Commission | registers.gamblingcommission.gov.uk |
| Spain | Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego | ordenacionjuego.es, Buscador de operadores |
| Denmark | Spillemyndigheden | spillemyndigheden.dk, list of licence holders |
| Germany | Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder | gluecksspiel-behoerde.de, the Whitelist |
The question does not quite work. The licence that matters is the one for the market you play from, because that is the regulator you can complain to and the register where the operator's status is recorded.
It means it is licensed in five markets. For you it still comes down to one of them, the one covering where you are.
Then this site does not cover it yet, and nothing on this page should be read as describing your regulator. Go to your own regulator's register directly. Once you have the register, the full set of checks is in how to tell whether an online casino is legitimate.
Register names and the GGL seal wording come from each regulator's own site. Which licence matters to you is general guidance. Last reviewed October 15, 2026.