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After Dark

About After Dark

By the . Updated . Register data retrieved 19 to 28 Oct 2026. 3 min read.

After Dark is an independent publication that reviews online casino brands from their public licence records. It is written by the After Dark editorial team, and it exists to answer one question well: which company holds the licence behind a casino brand, and what does the regulator's record say about it?

Why it is built this way

Casino review sites usually earn money when readers sign up, which gives them a reason to rate generously and stay quiet about weak spots. We take no commission, carry no sign-up links and publishes no scores. That removes the incentive, and with it the need to judge things we have not tested. What is left is the part of a review that can be checked by anyone: the licence record, read carefully and dated.

Independence

After Dark has no affiliation with any casino operator or regulator, and none with earlier owners or earlier uses of its web address. It has no operator access, no player accounts and no commercial links. The site is not a gambling operator and holds no gambling licence of its own.

Scope and limits

Six casino brands are reviewed, all from Great Britain Gambling Commission register pages: bet365, Grosvenor, LeoVegas, Mr Green, PlayOJO and William Hill. Accounts, games, payments and support were not tested. Nothing here is a sales pitch, a ranking or advice about where to gamble, and nothing here says a casino is legal or available in Malaysia or any other country. The full process is set out in how we review casinos, and the facts for all six brands are collected in the licence comparison table.

Responsible gambling

All content is for adults aged 18 and over. Gambling should never be treated as income. If it is causing problems for you or someone you know, BeGambleAware and GamCare give free, confidential help.

Image credit

The photograph of a king and an ace of clubs beside poker chips is by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash, used under the Unsplash License. It is not a photograph of any reviewed operator, not a screenshot and not evidence of testing; it only illustrates the subject. The After Dark logo is the site's own mark.

Register screenshots

The screenshot on each review shows that company's licence summary on the Gambling Commission public register, captured on 31 October 2026 at 21:10 UTC and cropped to the record. It contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Gambling Commission does not endorse this site.

Brand logos

Each licence slip shows the mark of the brand it covers, so you can match the record to the name you see on a website. These marks are trademarks of their owners and are shown only to identify each brand. Showing them does not mean any operator endorses this site, has a commercial relationship with it, or approved a review. Nothing is shown for Mr Green, because that review covers a surrendered company record rather than the current brand. The files come from these pages: