A store listing names a publisher, and that is the fact worth having

Why the publisher line is the fact worth having

A store listing has to name the company that published it. That name can be set beside the company named on the operator's licence paperwork, and the comparison is the cheapest identity check available anywhere in this subject — cheaper than a register lookup, and available to any reader with a phone.

The twelve operators compared on this site split unevenly on the first half of that comparison. Seven of them name a company: Medium Rare N.V. behind Stake.com, Natural Nine B.V. behind Shuffle, Liquid Entertainment N.V. behind Duelbits, Techno Wave Systems S.R.L. behind Bets.io, Halcyon Super Holdings B.V. behind Cloudbet, Universe B Games B.V. behind BetFury, and TechOptions Group B.V. behind Vave, the paid placement on this site. Five name none in anything read here: BC.Game, Roobet, Rollbit, MyStake and TrustDice.

For the seven, a store listing would either agree with the licence paperwork or disagree with it, and both outcomes are informative. For the five, a store listing would be the first company name a reader ever receives from that brand, which makes it the more valuable of the two searches, not the less.

What this index has on store listings: nothing

No store has been searched for this page, for any of the twelve. Neither the Apple listing nor the Google one has been opened, no publisher name has been recorded, no last-updated date has been captured, and no manifest has been fetched to establish whether a home-screen version exists. Twelve rows, two store columns, twenty-four empty cells.

That is written plainly because the alternative is worse. Pages answering this question tend to publish a confident yes or a confident no with no date attached, and both are guesses about a listing that changes without notice. A store entry can appear in one country and not another, be withdrawn in a week and return in a month, and be published by a company nobody expected. A claim about it is worth exactly the date beside it.

An empty cell here means the same thing it means everywhere on this site: a document nobody here has opened. It is not a zero and not a denial. Sixty-two of the hundred operators in the library behind these pages sit in that state on their territorial clause alone, and how we read explains why a blank enters no total and lifts no row.

Twelve rows, and the one column that is filled

The filled column is the one that survives a change of device. Whatever a store shows this morning, the company on the paperwork is the party a customer contracts with, and it is the name that appears if anything ever has to be pursued.

What a reader can check in two minutes

Search the store for the brand name and read the publisher line rather than the icon. Compare that company with the one on the licence paperwork, taking the seven above as a starting point. Note the last-updated date, because a listing that has not moved in a year is a different proposition from one updated last week.

And treat the terms as the thing that governs, whichever surface the account is reached through. The verification clause behind Stake.com is 4.8; behind Shuffle it is 4.1; behind Cloudbet, 18.1.1; behind Bets.io, clause 5, with thirty calendar days to supply documents; behind the paid row, 8.7, with fourteen days. None of those clauses changes because a shortcut sits on a home screen. Where the payout side of the same contract sits is set out in the four-brand comparison.

One brand, two products, and only one of them here

Stake.com is the crypto-currency casino and sportsbook, and everything above concerns it and the eleven operators compared against it.

A separate American operator trades under a similar name with a different product, a different company and a different set of rules. It is outside the scope of this site, and it has a page of its own rather than a paragraph here, because merging the two is the mistake this domain exists to avoid.

The counts these rows come from start at the operator table, and the same reading runs country by country through the United Kingdom and Canada.