Denmark licensed gambling operators: check the official register

Denmark's gambling regulator is Spillemyndigheden, the Danish Gambling Authority. Its licensing material says that online casino games offered to players in Denmark require a licence, and it publishes licence-holder records that can identify the operating company, named domain and permitted activity. The directory is the starting point, but a newer revocation, bankruptcy or enforcement notice can change how an older row must be read.

A search result, an advert or an accessible .com site is weaker evidence. It may show that a brand is visible, but it does not establish that a particular company may offer a particular product to Danish players. Atlas therefore treats Denmark, the licence-holding entity, the exact consumer domain and the product category as four separate checks.

The Authority's online-casino guidance describes roulette, blackjack, baccarat, punto banco, poker, online bingo, gaming machines and combination games as examples within the licensed activity. Betting is a separate permission category in the operator records. A page that proves betting should therefore not be stretched into proof of online casino, poker or any other product that is not named.

This distinction matters when a consumer-facing brand has a broad international catalogue. The relevant question is not what the group promotes globally; it is what the Danish regulator has recorded for the named entity and Danish domain.

First set the jurisdiction to Denmark and the product you need to assess. Then open the current Danish Gambling Authority licence-holder record and capture the company name exactly as published. Next compare the record's domain with the site in question, including country-code variations. Finally read the activity field rather than relying on a brand label or an old press release.

The result should be written narrowly. For example: a named Danish record for a named legal entity and bet365.dk can support a finding about the activities shown on that record. It does not by itself establish a licence for another Bet365 domain, a related company or a different jurisdiction.

Bet365, Betsson and PokerStars are useful examples because their public-facing brands are not the legal names in the Danish records. The Authority identifies Hillside (New Media Malta) Plc for bet365.dk, Nordic Spil Limited for betsson.dk and nordicbet.dk, and Reel Denmark Limited for the PokerStars domains it lists. A brand search that ignores these entity names can miss the strongest available evidence.

The Danish Gambling Authority's 2025 guidance also makes the boundary explicit: where a licence holder uses the same brand through several individual companies, each company needs its own licence. That is a regulatory rule about entities, not a statement that every company in a brand group is authorised.

A regulator record can name the domain through which a licence is used. This is especially helpful where a group operates several country sites or has historical domains. Nordic Spil Limited's Danish record, for example, names both betsson.dk and nordicbet.dk; Reel Denmark Limited's record names several PokerStars-related domains. Those entries should be read as domain-specific evidence rather than general permission for every similarly branded website.

If the exact site does not appear in the current record, Atlas does not infer a match from visual branding alone. It is safer to report that the domain has not yet been matched than to convert a neighbouring domain into proof.

The regulator's 7 May notice said Jackpotbet A/S had entered reconstruction on 22 April and that jackpotbet.dk was out of operation. The position then changed materially. On 21 August the Authority announced that the company had been declared bankrupt on 18 June and that its Danish online-casino and betting licences had been revoked.

The later notice now controls the current-status conclusion. The old record remains useful for history, entity and domain matching, but it is no longer evidence of a live Danish licence. Players with funds are directed to the appointed trustee; the regulator does not promise a repayment amount or timetable.

A current licence says the named entity may offer the named product through the recorded domain. A reprimand or police referral belongs to supervisory history and does not by itself prove that the licence has ended. Revocation is different again: it changes the licence status, as the Jackpotbet notice expressly confirms.

A DNS-blocking order sits on the illegal-market side of the evidence model. On 19 August 2026 the Authority said a court had ordered 98 sites blocked, taking its cumulative total to 870 since 2012. Those are domains, not necessarily 870 companies, and they should not be mixed into the licensed-operator count.

The Authority states that operators offering gambling such as casino, betting or poker in Denmark need a Danish Gambling Authority licence. Its latest published blocking round describes an initial request to stop, a court decision and ISP-level DNS blocking. This explains why a current official record is more useful than a general claim that a brand is available in Denmark.

A missing match is not automatically a finding about every activity or every company in a group. It means the reviewed source did not yet support the precise relationship being tested. Re-check the legal name, trading name, domain and product before drawing a conclusion.

For each check, record the jurisdiction, product, brand as displayed, regulator-published legal entity, exact domain, source URL and date. Add a separate operational-status field when the regulator has issued a notice. This makes the conclusion auditable and makes later updates much faster.

Atlas uses this method across its country and operator research. Start with the Denmark country profile, then compare the relevant operator profiles such as Bet365, Betsson and PokerStars. For a broader source map, use the worldwide regulator directory and the Atlas licence checker rather than relying on a single article.

This guide is a dated research guide, not legal advice. It does not test account eligibility, geolocation, tax treatment, recovery from an insolvent operator or whether a site accepts a particular player. It also does not claim to be a complete list of every licence holder; operator records can change after new licences, surrenders, revocations, restructurings, domain changes or regulator updates.

Atlas will re-check this high-risk market guide within 30 days, and earlier if the Danish Gambling Authority changes a record or publishes a material enforcement or operator-status notice. Readers making a legal, compliance or commercial decision should open the linked official record immediately before acting.