Last verified: September 10, 2026
01 · The taxonomy
Two ways an offshore casino ends
Every closure in the table below is one of two things for the player who still had money in an account. Read the funds column with that in mind: the manner of death decides whether a balance followed the player out or was left behind.
The operator names a closing date and keeps its side of the deal. Balances either move with the account into a sister casino under the same group, or are paid out before the site goes dark. The name disappears, but the balances do not. Desert Nights is the example here: after a sixteen-year run it shut in May 2026 and handed its players to Slots Capital, a stablemate under the same operator. English Harbour is the older paid example: a 1997 Antigua casino that its operator retired in 2011, with player balances reported paid at closure. Spartan Slots sits in the same column for a different reason: a 2022 Deckmedia wind-down that funnelled its players toward the group’s Slots Capital and settled on the way out.
No date, no destination. The lobby is swapped for an “unavailable in your country” page, or the domain rots from a live casino to a language-selector shell to dead DNS, and whatever sat in the accounts stays behind. There is no sister brand to check and no regulator with the power to force a payout. Malibu Club, Grand Fortune and Raging Bull, the Virtual Casino Group brands in the table, all ended this way, and High Country joined them in 2026, its old address now redirecting into an affiliate network. BoGamba ran the same script in December 2024, down to a domain that was later abandoned to expiry.
02 · The evidence
What a dead offshore domain does next
Where a closed casino’s traffic is sent afterwards is itself a piece of evidence, and the brands here point in several different directions. Desert Nights redirects its old players to a group sister, Slots Capital, which is consistent with the migration it announced; a separate affiliate shell on desertnightsmobile.com, meanwhile, still wears the brand and funnels sign-ups to an unrelated casino, Evospin. Grand Fortune’s original domain has gone to dead DNS, while a look-alike at grandfortunecasino.us.com forwards visitors to an offshore sportsbook. Malibu Club serves the same branded “not available in your country” page from every vantage. High Country’s domain does something different again: it redirects into an affiliate-marketing network, its leftover search traffic sold on as casino-signup inventory. BoGamba’s dead address did even less: it redirected nowhere, served a bare error page well into 2025, and was finally left to lapse out of registration. English Harbour, the oldest closure here, simply went dark, its address serving a hosting-suspended placeholder for years while a look-alike domain still passes the brand off as live. A live redirect to a sister brand is the signature of an orderly move; a look-alike selling the name on to somebody else is the signature of an audience being harvested after the fact.
03 · The register
Offshore closures, newest first
Ordered by closing date, most recent at the top. The funds column takes three readings: MIGRATED, where balances were carried into a sister casino; PAID, where a closing settlement went through; and UNPAID, where money was left behind with nothing on record to say it came back. A row links to its brand’s individual write-up once that goes live, and the header date above shifts whenever anything here changes.
| Brand | Software | Closed | How it ended | Player funds | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucky Bonanza (was Buffalo Casino) | BetSoft, Rival, Dragoon Soft | Aug 2026 | Unlicensed US-facing site renamed after five months, closed after thirteen; named by Michigan in an April 2026 order against 45 illegal operators | UNPAID (reported) | Record |
| Desert Nights | Rival (Deckmedia) | End May 2026 | Sixteen-year run ended in a merger into sister brand Slots Capital; balances moved with the accounts | MIGRATED | Record |
| Jazz Sports | Sportsbook (no casino platform) | Early 2026 | Sold in August 2024; new owners seized long-standing accounts from March 2025, then payouts stopped. Domain still answers with no working product | UNPAID (reported) | Record |
| High Country | RTG / SpinLogic | Mar 2026 | Single-brand death; live in January 2026, gone by March with no notice, the domain since turned over to an affiliate network | UNPAID (reported) | Record |
| Old Havana | RTG / SpinLogic | Aug 2025 | Mainstreet brand: closed in 2014 with players moved to Sun Palace, relaunched 2015, retired again in 2025 by a still-active group; 2025 settlement not publicly reconciled | MIGRATED | Record |
| Lucky Hippo | RTG | Aug 2025 | Unlicensed Main Street Vegas brand gone with no notice; fourteen logged disputes including an unpaid tournament prize | UNPAID (reported) | Record |
| BoGamba | Pragmatic Play + multi-provider | Dec 2024 | Cyprus-run, US-facing site; withdrawals stalled through 2024, then a silent shutdown, the domain later left to expire | UNPAID (reported) | Record |
| Grand Fortune | RTG / SpinLogic | Feb 2024 | Virtual Casino Group brand; decayed from live casino to a language-selector shell, then to dead DNS | UNPAID (reported) | Record |
| Malibu Club | Rival | Dec 2023 – Feb 2024 | Sister of Grand Fortune under the same group; a global “not available in your country” page since March 2023 | UNPAID (reported) | Record |
| Spartan Slots | Betsoft (Deckmedia) | Dec 2022 | Deckmedia wind-down; the site funnelled players toward sister brand Slots Capital and the standalone domain was handed to the group affiliate portal, with balances settled | PAID | Record |
| Raging Bull | RTG / SpinLogic | Early 2022 | Virtual Casino Group brand; the .com served a closure notice by early 2022 and the balances were left behind, while the RTG name carried on separately as Raging Bull Slots | UNPAID (reported) | Record |
| English Harbour | Vegas Technology | 1 Aug 2011 | Antigua veteran from 1997; wound down by its operator with a closing notice, balances reported settled | PAID | Record |
04 · The questions
Common questions about offshore closures
Q. What counts as an offshore casino closure on this tracker?
A US-facing, real-money casino – typically Curacao-licensed and running RTG, Rival or Betsoft software – that has been confirmed dead by at least two independent sources, ideally including the brand’s own domain behaviour. Sweepstakes platforms are tracked on a separate page; a brand that is merely blacklisted, or that has only moved domain, does not qualify.
Q. Does closed always mean players lost their money?
No, and that is the reason this tracker separates the funds column out. Some offshore casinos close in an orderly way and either migrate balances to a sister brand or settle them on the way out – Desert Nights migrated its players to Slots Capital. Others vanish and strand the balances. The word closed covers both, so read the funds value, not just the date.
Q. Why does the tracker list a software column?
Because the offshore market runs on a small set of platforms – RTG and its SpinLogic successor, Rival, Betsoft – and brands built on the same software are frequently run by the same operator groups. Grand Fortune and Malibu Club, for instance, were both Virtual Casino Group brands. The software line is often the first thread that connects one closure to another.
Q. A closure tracker lists a casino as dead, but its site still loads. Which is right?
Check the brand, not just the listed domain. A tracker date can lag reality by months or, as with Desert Nights, run seven months ahead of it; a domain can also keep serving a shutdown notice or an “unavailable” page long after the casino stops operating. Each record on this site brackets the real closing date against the brand’s own domain behaviour rather than trusting a single directory listing.
Q. How often is the tracker updated?
It grows as each offshore record is researched and published; new confirmed closures are added as rows, and the header’s Last verified date moves whenever anything on the page changes. This edition covers twelve brands closing between August 2011 and August 2026, with further offshore records in preparation.