Casino Status Log: What Changed and When

This status log records every change to the casinos on our lists, month by month, with the date and the reason. The October 2026 entry is the first: it opens the avoid list with 73 closed or inactive brands found on 12 October 2026 and re-tested on 15 October 2026, and notes the regulator actions and register changes we used. Nothing is removed silently; corrections are logged here too.

Each entry gives the date of the check, the brand or source, what changed and why. The current status of every brand is on the casinos to avoid page; this log explains how it got there.

What changed in October 2026?

October 2026 is the opening month of the log. We added 73 brands to the avoid list after a dated audit, re-tested every domain three days later, and recorded the regulator lists and decisions behind our blocked and unlicensed pages. The summary table lists each change by date; the sections below explain the larger ones.

Which brands were added to the avoid list?

All 73 brands came from one audit on 12 October 2026, which checked every casino reviewed across our review network and flagged those whose websites had closed, been sold or stopped working. Each one was added with its evidence: a closure notice, a broker listing, a different website on the domain, or no DNS record.

The largest single group is domains now used by casino comparison or review sites, such as Betiton, Casino Gods, Mr Mega, NightRush and Turbico. The second is domains that simply stopped resolving, such as AllReels, egoCasino and TrueFlip. A smaller group posted their own closure notices, including All Star Casino, which said registrations ended on 4 August 2026 and games were switched off on 30 August 2026.

What did the 15 October re-check show?

None of the 73 brands had reopened. We repeated a DNS lookup and an HTTPS request for every domain from a European server on 15 October 2026. Closure notices were still showing at Genesis Casino and BigWinner, Campeonbet’s domain still returned HTTP 410 at its terminated page, and seven domains pointed to for-sale listings.

4 requests were stopped by a firewall challenge: BetMoose, Casino Heroes, Plaza Royal Casino, Spin Rio Casino. For those we kept the 12 October closure evidence and marked the result plainly in the avoid list. They will be checked by hand before the November entry. A security challenge does not prove a site is open; it only means our automated request could not read the page.

Which regulator actions did we record?

We recorded the regulator material behind our blocked casinos and unlicensed casinos pages, each with its own date. These are not new entries on the avoid list unless a listed brand is affected; they are the sources we check brands against.

• ACMA, Australia: 1,810 domain entries on the public blocked list, read 15 October 2026. ACMA’s own count is 1,822 websites blocked since November 2019, as of 24 September 2026.
• Kansspelautoriteit, Netherlands: orders subject to penalty payments against Virtual Connect S.R.L. (luckygem.com, 15 September 2026), SkyGrow Group Limitada (boomerang.bet, 8 September 2026), Savant Limitada SRL (gxbet.com and instasino.com, 10 August 2026) and Kevenga Limitada (betspino.com, 9 July 2026).
• Curaçao Gaming Authority: enforcement register updated 14 September 2026 with 31 revocations and one licence not extended; portal-offline notice of 7 October 2026.
• Malta Gaming Authority: notice of 25 September 2026 listing URLs the MGA says it has no connection with.
• Spelinspektionen, Sweden: the 9 July 2026 ban on Softon Ltd (26Si1361), recorded because it affects the brands on our alternatives page.

What do the October numbers tell a player?

Mostly that old links go stale fast. Every one of the 73 brands was once reviewed and recommended somewhere, and by October 2026 none of them offered a casino a player could join. Many of their domains now carry other businesses, which is why we name the exact domain and the date for each brand rather than just the brand name.

The regulator figures point the same way from a different angle. ACMA’s list keeps growing because mirrors keep appearing; the Curaçao register shows hundreds of licences still under review under the new law; and the Dutch regulator is issuing orders against operators that are hard to trace, several of them listed without a website. For a player, the practical answer is the same each month: check the casino on the day you plan to deposit, using the steps in our licence check guide, and do not rely on a review you read last year.

Were there any corrections?

Two wording changes were made before publication, both after re-reading the primary source. On Anjouan, we corrected our description of time limits: a dispute about a game result must be raised within 14 days, and the operator has 30 days to respond. On Curaçao, we now describe the CGA portal as offline after unauthorised access reported in September 2026, rather than giving a single closure date.

Corrections that change a status will appear here with the date, the old status, the new status and the evidence. Typos and formatting fixes are made without an entry. If you think a status is wrong, our editorial policy explains how to send evidence.

How are entries added to this log?

An entry is added whenever a check changes something a reader would act on: a brand added, a status changed, a brand removed, or a source we rely on updated. Each entry names the date of the check, the source, the change and the reason. Routine re-checks that change nothing are summarised in one line per month.

What happens next?

The November 2026 entry will repeat the full re-check of every domain, hand-check the four sites behind security challenges, compare the next ACMA list and CGA registers against this month’s, and add any new decisions from the Kansspelautoriteit, Spelinspektionen and the Gambling Commission. Brands that relaunch will only leave the list once their operator and licence check out, as set out in our method.

Readers can speed this up. If you see a listed casino working again, or a new closure we have not recorded, send the domain and a dated screenshot to [email protected]. We test every report before anything changes, so a report never moves a brand on its own, but it tells us where to look first. Our guide to closed casinos explains the evidence we look for.

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