How to verify an Anjouan gaming licence (and spot a fake regulator)

The operational portal at anjouangaming.com self-describes as the designated regulatory authority for internet gaming under the laws of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan; anjouangaming.org, created the same day in May 2023, 301-redirected to it when checked on 12 July 2026. We call it the de facto portal rather than assert its official status, because on that date its live legal-basis page cited no statute at all - a verbatim search for "007", "2005" or "Constitution" returned zero matches.

Around it sit look-alike domains. None predates 2023, so seniority cannot resolve officialdom, and at least one site declares itself the "only official" presence while another, registered in 2026, advertises licences at a fraction of the published fee. The table below records what whois shows and what each domain claims about itself. It draws no conclusion beyond those facts, and neither should you: match the licence, then decide which register you trust.

Every one of the 1,425 numbers in the public register carries the ALSI- prefix - for example ALSI-202504011-FI1 - read directly from the register data on 12 July 2026. Industry sources identify the administrator as Anjouan Licensing Services Inc.; independently, only that prefix and the register itself are verifiable, so treat the administrator's name as market attribution rather than settled fact. What the instrument behind the number actually confers is a separate question, covered in what is inside the permit.

The register is searchable by licence number, company name or domain, and that is the primary check: take the number an operator gives you and confirm it resolves to an entry whose company and domain match. A badge, a PDF certificate or a self-description you cannot tie back to a register record has not been verified - it has only been asserted.

The register is genuinely substantial: 1,425 entries on 12 July 2026, 1,234 of them B2C, with 348 issued in 2026 alone. It is also, on that date, a register with no adverse statuses - every entry reads valid, and no suspension, revocation or expiry is visible despite the status taxonomy the site describes. A clean record is therefore weak evidence of enforcement rigour, and we read it as such. SKY7's own ready-made Anjouan lot is checked the same way you should check any counterparty: by the register match and the primary documents, not a portal's self-description.

The Authority requires an Interactive Licence Seal - an embedded tool that links a licensed website directly to its register entry and shows a green, yellow or red status - to be displayed on all sites used in connection with licensed activity. For a counterparty this is the fastest live check: click the seal and confirm it resolves to a matching entry.

Its limit is structural. The seal is only as reliable as the register it points to, and a static image of a seal proves nothing until it resolves. Verify the link, not the graphic. And because the register showed no adverse statuses on 12 July 2026, a green light confirms that an entry exists, not that a licensee has passed through any visible enforcement - so pair the seal with the corporate and ownership documents behind it.

One document is cited in both directions, so state it precisely. A Banque Centrale des Comores communique, republished on 10 December 2025 by the Union of the Comoros Ministry of Finance, lists the "Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority" and "Anjouan Corporates Services" among bodies whose banking and financial licences it treats as illegal and liable to prosecution.

What it does not do is mention gaming licences. It addresses offshore banking and finance authorities at the Union level, not the gaming regime or its register. The honest reading is narrow: it undercuts any "parent offshore finance authority" framing used in some marketing, and it says nothing, either way, about the validity of a specific gaming licence. Do not let a site conflate the two in either direction.