GB Gambling Business Register: Lookup and Changes

Look up and watch the Gambling Commission's register of gambling businesses for Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales): business accounts, licences, trading names and domain names, as published, with dated register changes listed 15 days or more after we first see them.

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Gambling Commission.

Please read before relying on a result

This Actor reuses the Gambling Commission's public register of gambling businesses (Great Britain only), as published on the date shown in each row (asPublishedOn). It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Gambling Commission. The Commission cannot guarantee the accuracy of the register as presented by third parties, and the register relies in part on manual processes at the Commission. A change reported here means only that a register entry changed between two of our daily reads: it may be the correction of an earlier error rather than a change in the business, and it does not by itself mean that a licence was granted, suspended, surrendered or revoked. Changes are listed 15 days after we first see them, so this is not a real-time alert. A change that is reversed within those 15 days is never listed, whether it was a correction or a real change that was undone. To protect individuals, we leave out every account that our name rule cannot show to be an organisation: about a third of all accounts, many of them genuine firms as well as sole traders. A business missing from our results may still be licensed: not being found here is not evidence of being unlicensed. Always check the Commission's own register before relying on an entry.

What you can do

• Merchant onboarding. Payment providers, acquirers and fintechs can check whether a merchant's domain or trading name is on the register, and see when its entry changed (a delayed record, not an alert).
• Advertising checks. Ad networks, affiliate programmes, media owners and app-store reviewers can check a gambling advertiser's domain before running its ads.
• Compliance and due diligence. KYC and due-diligence teams at suppliers to operators can check accounts and licence numbers and follow changes.

The Actor reports what the register lists. It does not say whether a business may lawfully operate.

Modes

lookup. Matching published entries for up to 500 each of accountNumbers, licenceNumbers and domainNames, and up to 100 tradingNames. In a domain, a leading http:// or https://, a leading www. and a trailing / are removed from what you type; case is ignored; it matches a published domain equal to it or to www. plus it. Trading names match exactly, ignoring case and repeated spaces. withAccount (off by default) adds each account's businesses-file entry as its own row, charged as one entry. An input with no match is listed in the run summary's notFound, each with the sentence "Not in our organisation extract; this is not evidence of being unlicensed; check the Commission's register."

{ "mode": "lookup", "accountNumbers": ["12345"], "domainNames": ["example-casino.example"] }

search. Filters on the published columns: nameContains (3 or more characters, matched in Licence Account Name and Trading Name), activity, type and status (as the register words them, case ignored) and files (businesses, licences, trading-names, domain-names). With no filter, set exportAll: true, or the run is refused. At most maxItems entries.

{ "mode": "search", "nameContains": "example-casino", "files": ["businesses", "trading-names"], "maxItems": 20 }

changes. Register changes released since a date (since, YYYY-MM-DD, up to 92 days back) or since your last run (your saved store, alertStore: the name, not the id, of a key-value store in your own account; 3 to 63 lower-case letters, digits or hyphens). Optional files, accountNumbers and kinds (entry added, entry no longer listed, entry changed, entry listed again, entry reverted). Oldest first. Use one run per saved store at a time: two runs on the same store at once can both deliver, and be charged for, the same changes. Only changes first seen after 1 Nov 2026 are released, each after a 15-day hold, so none is released before 17 Nov 2026. Until a change has completed the 15-day hold, a changes run is refused and nothing is charged; on its earliest such run, your saved store (alertStore) records that day as its start, so no later release is missed.

{ "mode": "changes", "since": "2026-10-01", "files": ["domain-names"], "kinds": ["entry changed"] }

Output

Published columns keep the Commission's names and values as published (with spaces, no re-casing or reformatting). Businesses file: Account Number, Licence Account Name. Licences: Account Number, Licence Number, Status, Type, Activity, Start Date, End Date. Trading names: Account Number, Trading Name, Status. Domain names: Account Number, Domain Name, Status.

An entry row (lookup, search) adds register, sourceFile, sourceUrl, asPublishedOn, readAt (UTC) and notice. copies appears when the published file repeats an identical row (returned and charged once); stale is true when our copy is more than 3 days old. All values below are made up, including the date formats.

{
  "Account Number": "12345", "Domain Name": "example-casino.example", "Status": "Example status",
  "register": "Gambling Commission register of gambling businesses",
  "sourceFile": "business-licence-register-domain-names.csv",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-register-domain-names.csv",
  "asPublishedOn": "2026-11-01", "readAt": "2026-11-01T06:10:00Z", "copies": 2, "stale": true,
  "notice": "As published by the Gambling Commission on the asPublishedOn date. Not affiliated with the Commission. Check the Commission's register before relying on this entry."
}

A change row (changes) carries kind, title, file, the columns that identify the entry (Account Number and the file's key columns, such as Licence Number and Activity, or Domain Name; for a row the file repeats, the whole published row), field, from, to (the old and new values of a changed column), firstObservedOn, previousReadOn (the read it was compared with), gapDays (days between those two reads), releasedOn, eventId (a 32-character identifier), register, sourceUrl and notice. reverses (the eventId of the earlier change this one reverses), copies (before and after, for a repeated row) and stale appear only when they apply. A licence is called revoked, suspended or surrendered only by quoting the register's own Status value inside quotation marks.

{
  "kind": "entry changed", "title": "Register entry changed: Status from 'Example status A' to 'Example status B'",
  "file": "business-licence-register-domain-names.csv",
  "Account Number": "12345", "Domain Name": "example-casino.example",
  "field": "Status", "from": "Example status A", "to": "Example status B",
  "firstObservedOn": "2026-10-10", "previousReadOn": "2026-10-09", "gapDays": 1, "releasedOn": "2026-10-25",
  "eventId": "0f3c9a1b2d4e5f60718293a4b5c6d7e8", "reverses": "9e8d7c6b5a4f3e2d1c0b9a8f7e6d5c4b",
  "register": "Gambling Commission register of gambling businesses",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-register-domain-names.csv",
  "notice": "Register entry changed between two daily reads. This may be a correction rather than a change in the business. Check the Commission's register before relying on it."
}

Run summary

Each run writes a RUN_SUMMARY record to the run's own default key-value store. status is ok for a run that answered.

Field	Meaning
status, reasonCode	refused (rejected before data was read; free), e.g. noChangesListed; failed (no price set)
asPublishedOn, historyStart	Date of our latest copy; start of the change history
counts	Rows per sourceFile (lookup, search) or per kind (changes)
notFound, notFoundText	Lookup: your inputs with no match (field, input, notFoundText)
matched, moreAvailable	Search: entries matched; true when more than maxItems matched
runCharged, chargeLimitReached	Whether run was charged; the run stopped reading at its charge limit
reversedWithinHold	Changes reversed inside the 15 days: a store-wide count, never per input or filter

It also carries stale and staleWarning (when our copy is more than 3 days old), lastReadAt (our last read of the register) and lastPublishedAt, guidance (the text under "Please read" above), attribution and withheld (a sentence on the entries left out).

Pricing

Pay per event, the same on all plans.

Event	Charged	Price
run	Once per run, when the data has been read, even if no row matches	$0.005
entry	Each entry row returned (lookup, search)	$0.002
change	Each change row returned (changes)	$0.005

• A refused run is free. A not-found input adds nothing beyond the run event.
• Exact duplicate rows are returned once and charged once.
• With withAccount on, each businesses-file row is charged as an entry.

Worked examples:

• Lookup of 20 domains, all found: $0.005 + 20 x $0.002 = $0.045.
• The same with withAccount on and 20 different accounts (40 rows): $0.005 + 40 x $0.002 = $0.085.
• Search returning 1,000 entries: $0.005 + 1,000 x $0.002 = $2.005.
• Changes run returning 3 changes: $0.005 + 3 x $0.005 = $0.020. With none in your window: $0.005.

Limits and freshness

• Great Britain only. Not included: the premises register, individual personal licences, regulatory actions and public statements.
• Lookup and search serve the latest copy, as the Commission's files said on the asPublishedOn date. We refresh it once a day; your run does not contact the Commission.
• Rows are marked stale when our copy is more than 3 days old. After 14 days the Actor refuses to answer (free).
• Changes are listed 15 days or more after we first see them. A change reversed within 15 days is never listed, nor its reversal. A reversal after release is its own change. The changes history serves up to 92 days back, and not before historyStart.
• About a third of accounts are left out by our name rule, so a missing business may still be licensed.
• maxItems: 1 to 10,000 (prefilled at 20; 1,000 when left out).

Personal data and removal

Returned, for organisations: the columns the Commission publishes in its four business register files (account number, licence account name, licence number, status, type, activity, start and end dates, trading name, domain name), with the dates and file names shown under Output. Not returned: contact details (the files hold none and the Actor reads none), premises addresses, individual personal licences, and the accounts our name rule leaves out because it cannot show them to be organisations, including entries held by sole traders. That rule is a heuristic, so it also leaves out genuine firms. An individual can still appear where an organisation's trading name or domain name contains a founder's or director's name: such rows are kept because the Commission publishes them for the business.

Requests to remove or correct an entry: info@yappman.com, with a reply within one month. Datasets of runs you have already made are yours and cannot be recalled by us.

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Attribution

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, reused with the Gambling Commission's written consent of 19 October 2026 for the purposes described to it. Source: Gambling Commission public register of gambling businesses; not affiliated with or endorsed by the Commission.