Isle of Man gambling licence check: current and former GSC holders

The Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission maintains one register for current online-gambling licence holders and a separate table for former holders. Start with the active register when the question is whether a legal entity holds a current GSC licence. Move to the former table when the entity is absent or when an older Isle of Man claim needs a dated explanation.

The active page was last updated on 2 September 2026. It names each company, marks the licence Active, gives its start date and licence type, and may publish website domains. The former table was last updated on 31 July 2026 and covers licences that ceased from 1 January 2020 onward. It records the legal operator name, licence dates and either Surrendered or Cancelled status. Neither page is a general list of websites that may lawfully target every market.

Atlas parsed all 54 company profiles in the active register on 10 September 2026 and reconciled the count with the regulator's dated register page. Thirty profiles are Software Supply, 16 are Full and eight are Network Services. The units are legal-entity licence profiles, not consumer brands or domains.

That distinction changes the headline interpretation. More than half of the current profiles are software suppliers. Counting all 54 as online casinos, betting sites or poker rooms would overstate the consumer-operator population and erase the licence category that the regulator publishes.

The GSC's October 2025 Full Licence summary says a Full licence can cover B2C activity such as offering games, striking bets and managing player accounts, and B2B activity such as supplying games, issuing sub-licences and providing white-label solutions. It describes coverage across casino, sportsbook, poker, bingo, mahjong, esports and bespoke formats. That is category scope, not proof that every possible product or domain is actually operated by each Full holder.

The Network Services summary says that category carries the same privileges as Full and additionally supports accepting players from network partners onto gameplay and back-office servers without re-registering them. The Software Supplier summary describes a separate licensed regime for suppliers and their software products. A Software Supply row therefore cannot be used as evidence that the holder operates a consumer gambling service.

A licence attaches to the legal entity named by the GSC. A consumer brand may be associated with that entity, but the strongest register-side bridge is the exact domain displayed in the holder profile. For example, the active profile connects GG International Limited to a Network Services licence and displays ggpoker.com and ggvegas.com. It does not license any unrelated lookalike domain or every company using the letters GG.

Product scope needs a separate check. A Full or Network Services category can support several verticals, but the holder profile does not necessarily say which product is offered on each displayed website. The conclusion should preserve the Isle of Man jurisdiction, named entity, exact domain, licence type and check date, and should label any brand or product inference that still depends on another source.

Atlas counted 97 cessation rows in the former-holder table: 93 Surrendered and four Cancelled. Those are licence records rather than necessarily 97 distinct brands; RoBET Limited appears twice with different licence periods. The table also excludes licences that ceased before 1 January 2020, for which the GSC asks researchers to contact the Commission.

A former row supports a narrow historical statement about the named legal entity and dates. It does not publish a licence type, consumer domain or product field. Rational Entertainment Enterprises Ltd, for example, appears as surrendered on 8 March 2025, but the row alone should not be expanded into a current or historical conclusion for every brand once associated with that company.

Record the exact domain from the browser before searching. Open the GSC active register and test the legal entity, brand spelling and domain separately. If there is a match, copy the company name, Active status, start date, OGRA licence type and every domain shown in that profile. Then decide whether the question concerns B2C operation, network services or software supply; do not collapse those categories.

If no current match appears, repeat the entity search in the former-holder table and record the cessation date and status. An absence result remains register-specific: it does not prove illegal activity, ownership, availability or licensing in another jurisdiction. Save the source URL and check date so that a later GSC update can be compared rather than overwritten without a trail.

GG International Limited is a complete register-side chain for the narrow current claim: the GSC names the entity, marks the licence Active, records Network Services, gives 15 October 2020 as the start date and displays ggpoker.com. The register does not by itself prove that the domain is available to a player in a particular foreign country, so local-market permission remains a separate question.

A search for Bet365 or Betano is incomplete in the opposite direction. Atlas found no current company, brand or consumer-domain match in the 54 active profiles checked on 10 September 2026. The correct result is not listed in this GSC register on that date, not unlicensed worldwide or illegal. The associated Atlas operator profiles retain other jurisdictions as separate relationships.

Atlas extracted every Company Name and OGRA Licence type from the GSC active page, counted the three category labels, then parsed every four-field row in the former table and counted cessation statuses. Selected domains and dates were reopened against the human-readable profiles. The three official October 2025 licence summaries were visually reviewed to limit the interpretation of each category.

This method measures what the GSC pages displayed on 10 September 2026. It does not test player registration, geolocation, payments, account eligibility, domain ownership or compliance with another country's law. The evidence pack has a 30-day review cadence and an earlier recheck trigger if the GSC changes either register date or publishes a new downloadable register.