How we test, rank and check casinos

This page explains exactly what nokyc.com checks, what it does not check, and how a casino ends up where it does on this site. If anything here is unclear or looks wrong, tell us and we will fix it.

What we actually do

We read the terms and conditions that casinos publish on their own websites, and we record what those documents say about identity verification. Then we read them again, on a schedule, and record it when the wording changes. Every claim we make about an operator is a quote from its own published terms, with a link to the source and the date we retrieved it.

That is the whole product. It is narrow on purpose, because it is the part we can prove.

What we do not do

We do not test withdrawals. We have not deposited money, played, or tried to cash out at the casinos listed here. So we never tell you that a casino “pays out in nine minutes” or that “you can withdraw $2,000 before anyone asks for ID”. We do not know that, and neither does anyone who has not tested it.

What their terms say and what happens at the cashier are two different claims. Plenty of sites blur them. We would rather be the site that is exact about what it knows.

How we classify a casino’s terms

Every entry in the register is assigned one of these, based on the operator’s own verification clause:

• No verification clause — the terms contain no identity requirement at all.
• Stated threshold — the terms publish a specific point at which verification kicks in.
• Conditional — verification is tied to defined triggers, such as anti-money-laundering law or suspected fraud.
• Sole discretion — the terms reserve the right to demand documents at any time, for any reason. This is the most common, and it is the one that most often sits underneath a “no KYC” banner.
• Silent — the terms do not address verification. Silence is not a promise.
• Terms not public — we could not retrieve the document: it is behind a login, blocked, or absent. For a site about transparency, that is a finding in itself.

What “contradicts its marketing” means

If a casino advertises no verification on its landing page while its terms reserve or require it, we flag the contradiction. Both documents are public, both are quoted, and you can check us. The flag is derived automatically from the rule above — it is not a matter of opinion, and no one here decides it case by case.

Entries with no evidence are withheld

An assessment only publishes if it carries a verbatim quote, a source URL and a retrieval date. If we do not have all three, the entry stays blank rather than being filled with a guess. This is enforced in the software, not left to good intentions, which is why you will sometimes see a casino listed with nothing next to it.

We quote the relevant clause rather than republishing an operator’s terms in full. The quote is there so you can verify us; the full document belongs to them.

How we make money, and what it does not buy

The casinos in our top list are commercial partners. If you sign up through one of our links, we earn a commission, and those links are labelled. That revenue is what pays for reading terms every day.

It does not buy a verdict. The order of the top list is commercial and we say so plainly. The register is not: a partner whose terms contradict its marketing gets flagged exactly like any other operator, and you will find partners flagged on this site. If we ever let commission decide what the register says, the register would be worth nothing — to you, and therefore to us.

Corrections

If you are an operator and we have quoted you wrongly, out of date, or out of context, contact us with the correct clause and we will update the entry and note the change. We keep the previous version either way — the history is the point.

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