Long-Running Online Casinos

The filter is one criterion: founded before 2017. An operator appears if our record gives it a founding year of 2016 or earlier. There is no second test, so read the list as a statement about longevity and nothing else.

Twenty-three of the twenty-seven operators we publish have a founding year on record. Four do not: Ignition, Lucky Block, Stake.us and Thunderpick. They are excluded rather than assumed young. A missing year is unknown, not recent. One or more may well predate 2017; we have not established it, and a page that sorts by age cannot promote a guess into a date. A bound the other way, a founding year of 2017 or later, would exclude the same four for the same reason. It is worth saying what that does not mean: new casinos in 2026 applies no filter at all and lists every operator we publish, those four included, because the question it asks is what you can check when there is no record to read.

One consequence is worth stating plainly. This list holds operators still trading. Every site founded before 2017 that closed or quietly stopped paying is absent, because it is not in our data at all. A list of survivors describes survival, not the odds of it.

An operator can buy a platform, a licence, several thousand games and a large welcome offer within months. It cannot buy 2014. That is the whole argument for age as a signal, and it is narrower than it sounds.

What a decade of trading produces is a public sample of the moments that decide anything: withdrawals that did not clear first time, verification demanded at the worst moment, bonus terms enforced after the fact, disputes escalated and either resolved or not. None of that exists for a brand launched last year. The difference between an operator founded in 2014 and one founded in 2024 is a difference in what can be known, not in what is true.

Our scoring is built on that distinction. Eight years or more of trading adds two points to the ten-point trust pillar; documented controversies subtract up to three. Age was made unable to outweigh the record it produced, which is why this page is ordered by that pillar and not by date.

Six of the eight operators here carry at least one documented controversy, eleven between them. As our research recorded them:

Cloudbet (2013), one. A reported Trustpilot score of 3.6 out of 5 across roughly 2,538 reviews with a 21% one-star cluster, and a Pulse feature that publicly shares betting activity by design.

BitStarz (2014), two. Recurring complaints about repeated KYC requests and one-account-per-household enforcement leading to voided accounts, with no reports of outright non-payment. And a change of company and licence, Dama N.V. to Gareton B.V., that many third-party pages have not caught up with.

FortuneJack (2014), two. A Trustpilot rating suspended for a guidelines breach, and multi-accounting accusations used to withhold winnings, documented across eight or more independent complaints since 2016 and characterised as unevidenced. And a no-KYC market position that sits against reports of verification demanded at withdrawal, well below its published AML thresholds of 10,000 USD per withdrawal and 100,000 USD per month.

Bitsler (2015), two. A KYC policy described in opposite terms by different reviewers in 2026: mandatory for every account in one, triggered only by large withdrawals in another. And an unsettled licence identity.

Gamdom (2016), two. A Trustpilot profile reported to carry no rating after a guidelines breach, and recurring complaints about balances frozen during repeated KYC attempts. And a move from a Curaçao licence to an Anjouan one, with Curaçao now on the operator's own restricted list.

Sportsbet.io (2016), two. A reported Trustpilot score of 1.2 out of 5 across roughly 277 reviews, about 81% one star, clustering on withdrawals declined after KYC and frozen balances, though reviewers note most escalated cases end in payment. And a licence identity our sources disagree on, as Bitsler's is, but over a different old number: one review still lists the Curaçao eGaming master licence 1668/JAZ, another the CGA licence OGL/2023/110/0072 issued 22 July 2024.

Bitcasino.io and Bovada carry none. Zero is a fact about what our research turned up, not a finding that nothing happened. Winna, whose 2024 is the most recent founding year on our record, also shows zero: two years of trading and twelve produce the same number. It counts coverage, not conduct.

The year attached to each operator says when a brand started trading. It does not say there was a continuous company, licence or set of people, and here all three have moved.

Three records document a change outright. BitStarz moved from Dama N.V. on the old Curaçao master licence 8048/JAZ2020-013 to Gareton B.V. on licence OGL/2024/165/0185. FortuneJack's operating company is recorded as PlayWave SRL, formerly Nexus Group Enterprises. Gamdom held a Curaçao licence and now holds an Anjouan one. Two more, Bitsler and Sportsbet.io, have licence identities our sources cannot agree on. And all five Curaçao-licensed operators here carry a number in the regulator's post-2023 OGL format, which did not exist when any of them launched. For Bitsler that number sits beside the old 8048/JAZ master licence, which one of our sources still cites for it; the other four carry the OGL number alone.

Corporate ground moves too. Our record notes a report from 23 September 2025 that the Yolo Group was shutting down Sportsbet.io and Bitcasino.io to exit unregulated markets, then a February 2026 report of late-stage talks to sell both. All three group brands were still being marketed in September 2026. Two operators on a page about longevity have been publicly reported as candidates for closure or sale inside a year. Age describes the past tense.

The same point from the other side: Bitcasino.io and Livecasino.io share a licensee, Moon Technologies B.V., and a licence number. Bitcasino.io, founded 2014, carries no documented controversies. Livecasino.io, founded 2020, carries six, and Casino Guru assigns it 1,300 black points with no complaint recorded against it directly, all inherited from sister brands.

A founding year on an about page is a marketing claim, and three checks settle it without trusting the operator or us: the domain's creation date in a public WHOIS record, the earliest capture of the site in a public web archive, and the incorporation date of the operating company named in the terms. A brand claiming 2013 on a domain registered in 2021 is at best a relaunch under a borrowed name, and the distance between a company's incorporation and a brand's launch is usually the interesting part. Our guide to reading casino terms covers where those clauses sit.

Then stop using age as the answer, because the questions worth more are about the present. Does the licence number resolve on the regulator's register. Does the company in the terms match the one on the licence. What are the withdrawal caps, and what triggers verification. Our methodology weighs each.

New casinos in 2026 argues the other half of this: a new operator is not less safe, it is less knowable. It is not the mirror of this page and does not filter by age at all — the eight operators here appear on it too. The founding years we hold run thirteen years, Bovada in 2011 to Winna in 2024, and neither end of that is a verdict.