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The Refusal Index

Written and checked by Ingrid HalvorsenTerms editor

Netherlands

Seven exclusion clauses in ten carry the word Netherlands

Twenty-seven of the 38 published exclusion lists read for this index name the Netherlands. That is the heaviest tally on any European page in this wave, and eleven documents make up the remainder.

The heaviest European tally in this wave

Twenty-seven operators write the Netherlands into the exclusion clause they publish themselves. Set against the 38 whose clause has been read for this index, that is roughly seven documents in ten, and it is more than any other European country covered in this first wave carries. Eleven read documents leave the country out, and those eleven are the whole of the remainder.

The count moves with the country rather than with the operator’s size or age. Poland sits at eleven from the same 38 documents, and the Dutch tally is two and a half times that from the same reading.

Where the Dutch line is printed

Twenty-six of these clauses sit at an address that announces itself: a terms page, a conditions page, or in one case a help-centre entry headed restricted jurisdictions. Coins.Game keeps its wording on the front page instead, at coins.game, which was read live on 26 August 2026. That placement matters to anyone checking for themselves: a reader who opens only the terms tab on that site could pass the clause without seeing it.

Every address below was read on 26 August 2026. The mark after each one says whether the document was open live or taken from an archived capture.

One list sits inside the other

Each of the eleven operators whose clause names Poland also names the Netherlands. The Polish group is a subset of the Dutch one, which is a compact way of saying that a Dutch reader gets everything a Polish reader gets and sixteen more besides. The relation runs one way only, and it emerged from comparing two lists rather than from any statement an operator made about either country.

Eleven documents where the country is absent

Eleven of the read clauses were published without the Netherlands in them, and the sentence this site uses is exactly that. An absence records what a document said on the day it was read. Lists are revised quietly, some are shorter than the practice behind them, and the payment side of an account brings conditions the terms page never mentions. Verification clauses sit above all of it and reserve the operator’s own judgement.

A further 62 operators in the library have published something that has yet to be read here, so their cells stay blank. A blank cell is a gap in the reading, and it counts as nothing at all about the operator’s position on any country. How we read sets out how that queue is worked through.

What the table shows a Dutch reader

Twelve operators appear in the comparison table below, four of them with a clause that has been read. Shuffle names the Netherlands in a list of fifteen countries at shuffle.com/info/terms. Stake, Bets.io and Cloudbet published clauses in which the country is absent, and the remaining eight cells stay empty.

What each operator publishes about itself: the company named on the licence, the permit number and where it was read, how many countries the operator excludes in its own terms, and when identity documents are demanded. The country count is the length of a list the operator published, not our estimate of where it will accept you. An empty cell means the document was not read — it is not a zero, and it is not a permission.

Vavepaid placement
  • OperatorTechOptions Group B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao no number
  • Countries barredlist not read
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Visit
Stake
  • OperatorMedium Rare N.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred1
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Shuffle
  • OperatorNatural Nine B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred15
  • Before ID checkcase by case
BC.Game
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Roobet
  • Operatornot published
  • Licencenot published
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Rollbit
  • Operatornot published
  • Licencenot published
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Duelbits
  • OperatorLiquid Entertainment N.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Bets.io
  • OperatorTechno Wave Systems S.R.L.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred42
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Cloudbet
  • OperatorHalcyon Super Holdings B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred2
  • Before ID checkcase by case
MyStake
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
TrustDice
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
BetFury
  • OperatorUniverse B Games B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published

The clause belongs to a contract, the law belongs elsewhere

The whole count above is drawn from private agreements. An operator that writes the Netherlands into a restricted-territory clause is describing whom it will accept, under a document it wrote. Dutch law and the Dutch regulator answer a different question, from different sources, and this page carries neither answer. Keeping the two apart is the reason the tally means anything at all.

Questions people actually type

How many operators exclude the Netherlands in their own terms?
Twenty-seven of the 38 whose exclusion list has been read for this index, every one of them read on 26 August 2026. Twelve documents were open on the live site and fifteen came from archived captures.
Where is the Dutch entry usually printed?
Most often in a restricted-territory clause inside the terms and conditions. Coins.Game is the exception in this group: its exclusion wording sits on the front page at coins.game, read live on 26 August 2026.
Eleven lists omit the Netherlands. What does that mean?
It means the country is absent from a published list, and the sentence stops there. Such a list can trail the practice behind it, it can be rewritten at any moment, and payment checks and verification clauses apply on top of whatever it says.
Does this page describe Dutch gambling law?
It describes contracts and stops there. A restricted-territory clause is drafted by the operator for its own dealings. What Dutch law permits a resident to do is a separate question with its own sources, and this page leaves it untouched.

The same reading runs across the index of refusals and through the pages for Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia.