Three corrections to this site, all of them ours, all found on 30 August 2026 while preparing the register research for people who might cite it.
We described a public enforcement case as an unexplained gap
Our register analysis reported that TGP Europe Limited holds 24 domains in the Gambling Commission’s register and that every one of them is marked Inactive — and then said the register gives no reason and that we would not supply one.
The register gives no reason. The regulator does. The Commission fined TGP Europe £3.3 million after finding it had failed to check the white-label partners trading under its licence, and on 15 May 2025 the company surrendered all four of its operating licences. The Commission’s own page for that account shows every licence as surrendered with that date.
Nothing we published was false, and that is exactly the problem with it. Presenting a documented enforcement case as a curiosity is a failure of the rule this site is built on: a source that is silent is not a fact that is unknown. We ranked “the download does not say” above “has the regulator said it somewhere else”, and the answer was one search away.
The page now names the penalty, the surrender and its date. It also separates the second example we had put beside it: AG Communications looks identical in the data — 76 domains, all Inactive — but has not surrendered its licence and still trades. Two licensees, one pattern in the file, entirely different regulatory positions.
“2,653 licensed businesses” was the wrong description
Across five pages we described the Commission’s businesses file as a count of licensed businesses. It is not. The file carries two columns — account number and account name — with no status and no dates, and an account stays in it after the licence behind it has gone. TGP Europe surrendered in May 2025 and is still listed in the copy we downloaded on 29 August 2026.
Every page now says business accounts, and the methodology and the register page both explain why. Current licence status lives in the Status column of the other two files, and in full on the Commission’s page for each account.
This does not change the finding it was used for. Mostbet, Bizbon N.V. and mostbet.com return zero across all three files, and a file that keeps historical accounts makes that absence stronger rather than weaker.
We claimed the research was unpublished elsewhere. It is not
In planning notes and in describing this work, we said counts of the British white-label industry were not published by anyone. Play the Game published an investigation into exactly this in March 2024, by five named journalists, covering roughly 750 white-label licences across about 40 licensees — and naming TGP Europe among them.
Our contribution is narrower and later than we were describing it: a current count from a dated register edition, and what has changed since. That is worth publishing. “Nobody else does this” was not true and should not have been said.
What changed as a result
- The register analysis names the TGP Europe penalty and surrender, separates the AG Communications case, and gains a fourth entry in its list of ways this check goes wrong.
- The methodology records that the businesses file carries no status, and that a silent register is not an unknown fact.
- Five pages now say “business accounts” instead of “licensed businesses”.
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