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Switzerland, counted

One clause of thirty-eight names Switzerland, and Italy with it

One of the 38 restricted schedules opened for this index prints Switzerland. It is the same fourteen-entry document that supplies the Italian count, and its neighbours to the north and west are named far more often.

One clause, and it is not a Swiss clause

Of the thirty-eight restricted-territory schedules opened for this index and read from end to end, one prints Switzerland. Crashino publishes it, an archived capture supplied it on 26 August 2026, and it names fourteen of the 122 markets counted here. Thirty-seven read schedules leave the Swiss entry out. Sixty-two operators in the hundred-name library keep a document that stayed shut, and they contribute nothing.

That single document is doing a great deal of work. It is also the only source of the Italian figure on this site, which means two markets in this index rest their entire count on one paragraph written by one company. Strike the paragraph and both go to zero.

Fourteen names, ranked by how usual they are

The fourteen entries in that clause are not eccentric. Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Turkey, Israel, Australia and Switzerland: a list of large regulated markets with Switzerland placed among them.

What makes the Swiss entry unusual is not its company but its rarity. Eleven of those fourteen names turn up in eight or more of the thirty-eight schedules; the United States turns up in thirty-two. Switzerland turns up once. One drafter treated the country the way most drafters treat Spain, and thirty-seven others did not follow.

A country between two of Europe's higher counts

Switzerland shares land borders with two of the more frequently named markets in this reading, and with the lowest-counted large economy in it.

MarketSchedules naming it
France23
Germany12
Austria6
Switzerland1
Italy1

Length of document does not explain the position. Seven schedules here each name 95 or more of the 122 territories covered, the longest reaching 105 entries, and Switzerland is absent from every one of the seven. A clause can list more than a hundred markets, including several with populations under a million, and still not carry the Swiss entry.

What the thirty-seven silent documents leave open

Thirty-seven clauses were read through without the country appearing. That is the entire finding, and it is thinner than it looks in a table.

Territory lists go stale between revisions. Regional editions of the same terms carry shorter lists written for another audience, and several of the thirty-eight addresses read for this index are exactly that: two German-language editions, two Australian ones and two Canadian ones, each capable of differing from whatever the operator serves elsewhere. Underneath the published text a payment processor imposes rules that appear in no document a reader can open, and the verification desk holds a judgement in reserve until a payout is asked for. None of that is counted on this site, because none of it is published, and a count of one is no more a forecast than a count of thirty would be.

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.

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  • OperatorTechOptions Group B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao no number
  • Countries barredlist not read
  • Before ID checkcase by case
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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

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Blank cells, and the sixty-two behind them

For sixty-two of the hundred brands the restricted clause was never reached in this pass: terms had moved, a login sat in the way, or no usable capture existed.

Those cells stay blank, and there are more of them than there are read documents: sixty-two against thirty-eight. Any figure on this site therefore describes a minority of the library, and the Swiss figure describes a single member of that minority. Blank is the third state here, and it reports where the reading stopped rather than what an operator decided. It adds to no total and shifts nobody's position in the table, and treating it as a permission would pass unfinished work off as advice. How we read sets out the definitions and what would move a brand out of the third group.

A trading document, and Swiss law

Every figure here came out of terms of business. Firms align those lists with their licensing and their banking arrangements, redraft them when either shifts, and publish the result without notice, which is why each number on this site is dated.

What Swiss law permits is settled by instruments this page never opened, and the question belongs with them. A refusal printed in terms of service can look like an official act while binding nobody except the person who accepted those terms. The country index shows the full spread: France reaches twenty-three, Germany twelve, and Italy one.

Questions people actually type

How many operators write Switzerland into their own restricted schedule?
One of the thirty-eight opened on 26 August 2026: Crashino's, read from an archived capture. Thirty-seven opened schedules leave the country out, and sixty-two operators in the hundred-name library keep a document that stayed shut.
Is it really the same document that names Italy?
Yes. Both counts rest on one clause of fourteen entries, so the Italian and Swiss figures are not independent of each other. Remove that single document from the reading and both markets fall to zero, which is a fragility worth stating plainly rather than hiding behind a tidy number.
How do France and Germany count by comparison?
France reaches twenty-three of the thirty-eight schedules and Germany twelve, against one for Switzerland. All three figures came from the same pass on the same day, so the twenty-two-point gap across the French border is a difference in drafting and not a difference in method.
Does this page report on Swiss gambling law?
It reports contract text only. A restricted-territory schedule is written by an operator about its own service and revised by that operator alone. Swiss federal law and the cantonal and federal authorities publish separately, and legal questions belong with those sources.