Who writes this site, and on which evidence

Ingrid Halvorsen, terms editor

Ingrid Halvorsen writes this site and reads one kind of source on each of the 100 operators behind it: the document the operator publishes about itself. Terms of service, the restricted-territory clause inside them, the verification clause, the cashier and promotions pages, and where the operator prints a number, the entry in the issuing register. Every figure printed here carries the clause it was copied from and the date it was read.

She holds an account with zero operators named on this site, places zero bets, and reports zero experience of her own. The deposits, payouts and disputes that other sites in this subject describe as first-hand belong to other people, and they reach a page like this one as published text or as nothing at all.

That is the whole of the standing she claims, and it fixes what the site can say. A person reading contracts can tell you which country a company named in its own agreement and on which date. The same person has no business telling you how a cashier felt at three in the morning.

How one count gets built

The number at the head of every country page here comes out of an intersection, and it takes four steps.

First, the library: 100 operators, each with an address for its own terms. Second, the reading: 38 of those operators publish a territorial list in a form that could be opened, and all 38 were opened on 26 August 2026, with a note of whether the page arrived live or as a stored copy. Third, the crossing: one country against those 38 lists gives a count of the operators excluding it in their own wording. Fourth, the remainder: 62 lists stayed shut, and they stay visible as a separate figure rather than folded into the total.

Run the United States through that and the answer is 32 refusals, 6 published lists leaving it unnamed, 62 unread. Run Ireland through the same 38 lists and the answer is zero, 38 and 62. The three parts always sum to 100, which is what makes the arithmetic checkable by a stranger.

Why the wording is stiff in places

Sentences on this site are built to survive being quoted back.

“The country goes unnamed in the published list” reads awkwardly beside “the casino accepts players from Ireland”, and the awkward version is the accurate one. Documents get published incomplete. Processors form a view of their own, at a remove from the agreement. Clauses get rewritten overnight, quietly, inside a file the reader already skimmed once. Every softer phrasing on offer would amount to a promise this site is in no position to keep.

The same stiffness governs blanks. A cell with nothing in it stands for a document nobody here has opened, and that is worth recalling whenever an empty column starts to look like good news.

What this site leaves to others

Legality is the first thing left alone. A territorial list is a clause in a contract, written by an operator, enforced by that operator, amendable by that operator. The law of a country is a statute with a legislature behind it and a regulator in front of it. Those are different documents by different authors, and a reader who needs the second one should go to the statute and the regulator rather than to a count assembled from contracts.

Scores are the second. A number out of ten needs a formula out in the open, this site keeps none, and a ranking whose arithmetic stays hidden is an opinion in a numeral’s clothing. What appears instead is the field, the clause and the date, laid out so a reader can disagree with the conclusion while checking the source.

Experience is the third. Zero pages here describe playing, winning or losing, because zero people writing here have done any of it under these brands.

Recommendation by enthusiasm is the fourth. One operator pays for its placement, the row carries the mark, and that row obeys the same rules as the rest, unflattering lines included.

Corrections

Documents move. A clause gets renumbered, a list gains three countries, a register answer flips between one month and the next. Anything on this site can therefore be out of date in the ordinary way, and the date beside each figure exists so a reader can see exactly how out of date it might be.

Where a reading here differs from the document as it stands today, the document wins, and the page gets amended with a fresh date rather than quietly corrected. The rules governing all of it appear under what gets opened and what stays closed, and the counts themselves begin on the country index.