One sister, and it is not another exchange – checked on 15 August 2026
Betdaq has one live sister site: Hattricks. Both are run by Exchange Platform Solutions Limited of Alderney on Gambling Commission account 34865, which also holds a third name, Crossplay, that has stopped.
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What Hattricks actually is, and what it is not
Sister sites are sites the same licensed company is answerable for. That is the entire test, and it says nothing whatever about whether the two products resemble each other. Betdaq and Hattricks are the worked example: one is a betting exchange, the other is a football prediction game, and the only thing binding them together is the company underneath.
The account files three Hattricks addresses. Two of them, hattricks.app and hattricks.com, are marked Active. The third, hattricks.win, is marked Inactive, and it no longer resolves to a server at all, so there is nothing behind it to find. Hattricks was opened on 15 August 2026 and it is running. Nine Premier League ties sit side by side, each one waiting for a pick, with a countdown to the deadline and a set of tips from a manager, an ex-referee, a presenter, a coach and an ex-professional. The player chooses all nine. It is a prediction game rather than somewhere to place a bet, which is why anybody arriving in search of a second exchange would not recognise it as one.
No promotion is quoted for Hattricks on this page. What it is running this week is a question for its own site, and the date beside any figure there is the thing to check.
The permission that makes an exchange an exchange
Account 34865 is a numbered file, and one is opened for each business allowed to sell gambling to people in Britain. The file for this one carries licence 034865-R-333858-007 and four separate activities, every one of them marked Active from 29 September 2021 and none added since.
One covers running a betting exchange. One covers a casino. The remaining two cover fixed-odds betting, divided between real sporting events and computer-generated ones. All four describe gambling reached through a screen rather than over a counter in a shop.
The exchange line is the one worth understanding, because it is what makes Betdaq the thing it is. A bookmaker takes the other side of your bet and prices it so that the book keeps a margin. An exchange does not take a side at all. It puts two customers who disagree in front of each other, holds the money, and charges a commission on what the winner collects. That is filed as its own activity under the heading betting intermediary, and it is a different permission from the two fixed-odds ones sitting beside it on the same account.
Three names on the licence, and only two still working
The account files three trading names and seven web addresses, and reading the two lists against each other answers a question that neither list answers on its own.
| Name on the licence | Status | Addresses filed to it |
|---|---|---|
| betdaq | Active | www.betdaq.com and www.mobile.betdaq.com, both Active |
| hattricks | Active | hattricks.app and hattricks.com Active, hattricks.win Inactive |
| crossplay | Inactive | crossplay.fun and crossplay.win, both Inactive |
Crossplay is switched off on both counts. The name is Inactive and so is every address filed to it, which is what a brand looks like when it has genuinely gone. Hattricks is the other shape entirely: the name is live, two of its addresses are live, and one has been switched off underneath it. An address going quiet on its own tells a reader very little. It is the name going quiet with it that says the brand has gone.
One further detail stops a reader drawing the wrong conclusion from a name lookup. Both Crossplay addresses still point at a server, even though the licence marks them Inactive, while hattricks.win points at nothing at all. Being switched off on a licence and being given up on the internet are separate events, and they do not have to happen in that order or in any order.
That distinction is worth carrying to any sister-site question anywhere. Lists built by counting web addresses will hand you brands that stopped years ago, and will miss the fact that one live brand can sit behind several addresses at once.
What Betdaq is putting in front of new customers
Three promotions were on the front of www.betdaq.com when it was read on 15 August 2026, all of them priced in sterling, and the terms on the main one say in as many words that it is for customers in the United Kingdom.
The headline offer returns a first month of commission as cash, up to £1,000, under the code DAQBACK. The conditions printed with it are worth reading before joining: it is for new customers aged 18 or over, the money comes back at the end of the first 30 days as funds that can be withdrawn, only deposits made by debit card qualify, and the standard 2 per cent commission rate applies while it runs. Customers trading through the programming interface or the racing data tool are excluded from it.
A second offer, code 0COMM100, drops commission altogether for 100 days, again for new customers aged 18 or over. A third, code V1010, is aimed at existing customers rather than new ones and pays £10 back on a £10 stake placed on virtual events.
Notice what the first two of those actually are. Neither is a bonus in the usual sense. An exchange has no margin to hand back, so the thing it can discount is the commission, and that is precisely what both offers do. Signing up was not attempted for this update, so what the joining form asks for is not described here.
Where the Ladbrokes and Coral answer comes from
Ask most guides what Betdaq sister sites are and the answer comes back Ladbrokes and Coral. That answer is about a former owner rather than a current licence. The purchase by Ladbrokes in February 2013, and the run onward through the Ladbrokes Coral and Entain mergers, were both written down here in August 2026, and they are carried forward under that date rather than offered as a check made this morning.
What was confirmed this morning is the licence position, and it is not ambiguous. A search of the Commission records for betdaq on 15 August 2026 returns exactly one licensed business, Exchange Platform Solutions Limited, and every permission on its account begins on 29 September 2021. Nothing else in the entire record answers to the name.
Ownership history and accountability are two different questions, and only the second one matters when something goes wrong. If a bet placed on the exchange today is disputed, the business that has to answer for it is the one named on the licence, and the head office recorded against that business is Millennium House on Ollivier Street in Alderney.
The actions page, and what it actually covers
Read on 15 August 2026, the actions part of this account file holds no table and one short sentence. What that sentence says is that the regulator has recorded nothing here.
That is worth reading narrowly rather than generously. It is a record of formal action taken by the regulator, so it is silent on complaints that never reached the regulator, on disputes settled privately between a customer and the company, and on anything that happened before September 2021, when a different business held the licence for this exchange. An empty section is a statement about the file, and not a character reference.
Fixed odds instead of an exchange
Nothing named below shares a licence with Betdaq, and the difference is worth putting plainly rather than leaving somebody to work it out. A sister site means one company is answerable for both. These are two other British books this site is prepared to put in front of somebody looking for a bet, and neither one carries any company connection to the exchange.
They are also a different product, which matters more here than it would on an ordinary bookmaker page. Both take fixed-odds bets in the ordinary way, so somebody who came to Betdaq to lay a selection or to trade a position will not find that here. What they will find is a book pricing its own markets, which suits a straightforward bet rather than a traded one.
The pair were chosen because they pay a welcome in two different ways, and that difference is the thing to weigh rather than the headline number. One hands over a fixed free bet once a qualifying stake has settled and asks nothing further. The other lets the free bet accumulate as you bet and allows you to take it early, which is worth more to somebody betting week after week and less to somebody opening an account for a single weekend.
Other betting brands checked the same way
10Bet sits on a British account carrying a single brand, and that page sets out what a licence with one name on it looks like from the inside. MarathonBet is the far end of the same scale, where the licence file has been withdrawn from public view altogether. Entain is the group that Ladbrokes and Coral belong to, which is where most readers arriving here from an old sister list were actually trying to get to.