🔒 Licence Active, every domain Inactive
🏠 Moved, closed, or repurposed
💼 The company behind every one of these brands
AG Communications Limited is the Gambling Commission licensee behind the Aspire Global name in Britain, headquartered in St Julians, Malta. The casino side of that permission has been running continuously from 1 November 2014, joined by sports betting partway through 2017 and by bingo the following year, and none of the three has ever lapsed. The licence covers a large number of declared web addresses, every single one of them now marked Inactive, filed against one trading name and no listed premises, consistent with a business that only ever operated online. That combination, permissions switched on with nothing trading behind them, is the shape a licence takes when a company has pulled out of a market without formally handing the permission back.
🔍 How an emptied licence still reads Active
An Active licence with zero live brands can look like a contradiction, but the record kept by the regulator is simply literal about it: AG Communications keeps its casino, betting and bingo permissions while offering none of its declared domains to players in Great Britain. Every brand this page covers, from the best-known names to the smaller ones, sits Inactive on the same account. That makes checking the current status of a brand, rather than trusting an old list, the only reliable habit; a familiar-looking domain proves nothing about who is licensed behind it today.
👥 Where each brand on the account ended up
Four names left the account entirely rather than closing with it. Two of them, Karamba and Griffon Casino, ended up together on a single White Hat Gaming licence; 666 Casino resurfaced under Jupiter Gaming, a company based in Jersey; HeySpin found a new home with Jumpman Gaming. All four kept their identities but now answer to a different licence holder, which matters for anything tied to the brand rather than to the player nationally.
Five names closed outright and have not resurfaced anywhere. Regent Play and QueenPlay each carry a wind-down notice from the operator, still live at their old addresses; Plaza Royal shut in the same wave. Mr Play and Trada Casino, two of the longer-running names on the account, closed alongside them despite years of trading history. A further handful of smaller names on the same account, among them Hopa, MagicRed, Casiplay and PlayFrank, are also marked Inactive with no working site behind any of them. None of these has reopened under any name.
Two addresses took a stranger path than either a move or a closure. Slotzo and Mr Mega were both handed over, not by the operator but by whoever now controls the domain: both addresses today host advertising content published by outside businesses holding no gambling licence at all, standing in for the casinos once run there.
📜 Two closure notices, two different company names
The wind-down notices at Regent Play and QueenPlay both credit Aspire Global International LTD, a company based in Malta, with running the sites, without pointing to the British licence holder at all. That distinction is worth stating plainly, because the regulator-held account underneath every brand on this page actually belongs to a related company with a different name on the door, AG Communications Limited, and post sent to the name printed on the notice itself may simply land with nobody able to act on it. Not every closure notice on the account repeats that gap: at least one later notice on the same account names AG Communications directly, so the goodbye pages do not even agree with each other on whose signature belongs at the bottom.
⚖ Two enforcement cases in full
📌 Both regulatory outcomes, in full
- 14 November 2022: a £237,600 penalty landed alongside a written caution and extra licence conditions, following gaps in the due-diligence work done on six connected businesses selling gambling under the same permission
- A second case, settled on 4 February 2025, put £1,407,834 toward affected customers rather than a standard fine, of which £220,334 came back after a losses-cap safeguard stopped working for a batch of older accounts, plus a share of the cost of investigating
- The 2025 case spanned both money-laundering controls and player-protection duties together, with the conduct in question dated May 2023 to October 2024, and one exclusion failure recorded from October 2022
- Only the 2025 outcome shows on the account current summary; the 2022 penalty sits in the wider enforcement archive rather than that page
Both are printed here in full precisely because the summary page understates the record: it reflects what is current rather than everything that has happened, which is exactly the gap that leaves the older case invisible unless someone goes looking for it specifically.
💰 Getting a balance back
None of this cancels the obligation to hand back money still sitting in an account, no matter which brand name on this file it was opened under. Every closure notice points the same way: contact support through whichever address that particular brand once used, spell out the login name plus the amount thought outstanding, and hold onto copies of every reply that comes back. A proof-of-identity step before anything moves is standard practice rather than a delay tactic, and a refund should land on whichever payment method originally funded the account. Where an operator stops replying, a named dispute body sits behind each brand and takes the complaint from there, since the regulator itself is limited to holding the licence rather than settling any individual claim. Exact contact details differ from brand to brand and are set out in full on each page linked further down this one.
🚫 Self-exclusion across a scattered family
GAMSTOP alone travels with a player no matter what happens to any brand on this list, shutting off access to every British-licensed casino in one move regardless of which company sits behind the permission at the time. A self-exclusion set up with one specific brand sits apart from that: it bound the operator running that brand at the time, and nothing guarantees it travelled automatically to White Hat Gaming, Jupiter Gaming or Jumpman Gaming once a brand moved, or that it reaches a name that only joined the account later. The safer move for anyone leaning on an old brand-level exclusion is setting up a new one directly with whoever operates that brand today.
- ✅ Safe: confirming which company currently holds a brand before trusting that an old sister-site list, or a self-exclusion made years back, still holds up today.
- ❌ Costly: depositing at slotzo.com or mrmega.com in the belief either is still the casino it once was. Both now belong to unrelated businesses.
🔗 Every Aspire Global page on this site
Four brands moved to new operators and are covered in full on their own pages: Karamba and Griffon Casino on White Hat Gaming, and 666 Casino and HeySpin on their respective new licences. Five brands closed outright: Regent Play, QueenPlay, Plaza Royal, Mr Play and Trada Casino each carry their own closure story. Slotzo and Mr Mega account for the two addresses that ended up as outside advertising pages instead of casinos. SlotJerry closed in the same wind-down and has a page of its own.
See Aspire Global on the casino sister sites index.