Last verified: July 12, 2026
CasinoGone is a record of gambling sites that have closed, exited markets, or disappeared. Recording a death is a different job from reviewing a living brand, and it needs a different evidence chain. This page sets out what we check, in what order, and what we refuse to publish.
The problem with closure reporting
When a casino dies, accurate information about it gets worse, not better. The operator has no reason to explain anything. The site that would normally be the primary source is a blank page, a redirect, or a domain squatter. Forum threads fill with guesses. Meanwhile the brand keeps ranking in old listicles that describe it as open, five years of bonus codes outlive the cashier they pointed at, and players with balances stuck in limbo can find nothing that tells them what actually happened.
That gap is the reason this site exists. Our job is to establish, with dates and documents, three things for every brand we cover: that it is actually gone, why it went, and what happened to the players who were still holding money when it did.
The evidence chain, in order
Every brand record is built the same way.
The domain comes first. We load the brand’s URL on the day we write and record precisely what it does: a closure notice, a blank server response, a redirect to another brand, a parked page, a geo-block message. Each of those means something different. A redirect can be a rebrand, a network consolidation or a domain sale, and we do not call it a closure until the rest of the chain says so. Whatever the domain does, we date it and describe it.
The licence register comes second, and it is the closest thing this niche has to a death certificate. Gambling regulators publish their registers, and a licence that has been surrendered, suspended or revoked is a matter of public record with a date attached. We check the relevant register directly – the UK Gambling Commission’s public register for British brands, the equivalent bodies elsewhere – and we quote its status, not our memory of it. Where a brand operated on an offshore licence with no meaningful public register, we say exactly that, because the absence of a register is itself information a player deserves.
Corporate records come third. Liquidations, administrations and strike-offs leave a paper trail in company registries. When an operating company enters insolvency, that filing usually explains more about a closure than anything the brand ever published, and it is the authoritative source on whether player refunds were ever realistically coming.
Archived snapshots come fourth. Public web archives let us establish when a cashier stopped working, when a closure banner first appeared, and what the terms said at the point of death. We use them to pin dates and to quote closure notices that no longer exist anywhere else.
Player reports come last, weighted accordingly. Forum threads and community reports are how we learn what closure actually looked like from the inside – withdrawals that slowed before the announcement, support that stopped answering, the final email. We treat these as lived experience that shapes what we investigate, never as established fact on their own. A pattern of consistent reports is worth recording as a pattern; a single angry post is not a finding.
What we will not do
We do not publish a closure date we cannot anchor to a register entry, a corporate filing, an archived notice or a dated observation of our own. We do not guess at refund outcomes; if the fate of player balances is unrecorded, the record says so plainly. We do not treat a maintenance page as a death or a redirect as proof of anything until the chain is complete. And when the trail runs out, the page says the trail ran out – a documented dead end is a legitimate finding on a site like this, and it is worth more to a stranded player than confident fiction.
Rating platforms and review aggregators do not appear in our evidence chain at all. Their scores measure submission volume and dispute pressure, which tells you how players felt but not what happened. We read them, occasionally, to see what questions players are asking. Nothing from them reaches a page as fact.
Who writes this
CasinoGone is written and maintained by its Editorial Team under a publisher who has spent roughly twenty years in gambling industry publishing – long enough to have watched dozens of the brands in this archive launch, peak and vanish, and to know how the paperwork behind a disappearance actually reads. The site earns money through affiliate links in the sections that show where a dead brand’s players moved, and it says so wherever those links appear. The record itself is not for sale: closure facts, refund outcomes and regulator actions are reported the same way whether or not any linked brand pays.
The standard, in one line
Every closure anchored to a document or a dated observation. Every gap declared. Every date checkable. Nothing borrowed from the forty sites that copied each other.
Frequently asked questions
How do you know a casino is really closed and not just down?
We do not call it until the chain agrees: what the domain does, what the licence register says, what corporate filings show and what the archives date. A dead server on its own proves nothing; a surrendered licence with a date on a public register proves a great deal.
Can you help me get my money back from a closed casino?
We are a record, not a claims service, but the record is built to help: each brand page documents what is known about player balances, the refund route where one existed, and the regulator or administrator to contact. Where no route exists, the page says so rather than raising false hope.
Why do some pages say a detail was not verifiable?
Because it was not, and we would rather show the edge of the evidence than paper over it. Closure reporting is full of confident numbers nobody can source. We flag the gap and keep the page updated as documents surface.
Do the casinos or their competitors pay for coverage?
No brand can pay to be included, excluded, or described differently. Affiliate links appear only in clearly marked sections showing where displaced players went, and the disclosure sits on the section itself.