Coverage methodology

/v1/health/coverage returns a domain_coverage object per jurisdiction:

"MGA": {
  "domain_coverage": {
    "operators_with_domain": 106,
    "normative_operators": 114,
    "coverage_pct": 93
  }
}

This page explains what those three numbers mean — because the honest answer depends on which question you’re asking. It covers domain coverage only; how we read each register and which regulator page sets each licence status is in our methodology.

The numbers

Field	Meaning
normative_operators	Operators in this jurisdiction whose license type is one where domain disclosure is normative — i.e., the operator is consumer-facing and the regulator publishes (or could publish) a website field.
operators_with_domain	Subset of those operators that have ≥1 linked domain (a row in domain_operators) in our DB.
coverage_pct	operators_with_domain / normative_operators × 100. The honest “what fraction of operators we should have a domain for, do we?” number.

Why exclude non-consumer license types

Different regulators license different activities. A B2B software supplier or a non-remote arcade operator can hold a perfectly valid license without ever running a consumer website. Including them in the denominator deflates coverage in a way that has nothing to do with our scraper quality — it just measures the regulator’s mix of consumer-facing vs. supplier licenses.

The normative subset filters them out. What’s left is operators where a missing domain is interesting — either we missed it (scraper bug we can fix) or the regulator didn’t publish it (upstream ceiling, defer to enrichment).

Per-jurisdiction filter

Jur	Normative subset	Excluded
UKGC	license_type_raw = 'Remote'	Non-Remote (physical premises), Ancillary Remote (B2B suppliers, game studios)
MGA	license_number LIKE 'MGA/B2C/%'	MGA/B2B/* (suppliers), MGA/CRP/* (Critical Gaming Supply / Recognition / Personal)
CW	license_type_raw ILIKE 'b2c%'	b2b (suppliers post-LOK)
KH	license_type_raw = 'Interactive Gaming Permit'	CSPA (Casino Software Provider Authorisation, B2B suppliers)
AN	'B2C' = ANY(license_types)	pure-B2B and pure-White-Labeling-only operators
TGC	license_type_raw = 'B2C'	B2B (suppliers)
IOM	license_type_raw = 'Full'	Network Services, Software Supply (B2B — networks and game suppliers)

For MGA we filter on the license-number prefix because license_type_raw carries the gaming-service breakdown (Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, Type 4), not the B2B/B2C class distinction.

For AN, operators with mixed license_types (e.g., ["B2C","B2B"]) are included — having any B2C component makes the operator consumer-facing.

For IOM, Full is the Online Gambling Regulation Act licence to offer gambling to the public; the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission lists a website in a licensee’s profile only “where a licence holder is actively offering services to the public”. A Network Services licensee (a poker network, say) can run a consumer site and still falls outside the subset — the filter follows the licence type the Commission names.

Reading the numbers

For a given jurisdiction, coverage_pct is the most useful single indicator of “how complete is iGregulator on this regulator?” relative to what’s recoverable. It’s not the same as ”% of all licensees that have a domain” — that older framing mixed B2B and consumer-facing operators and obscured the real ceiling.

Two consequences worth flagging:

• A coverage_pct of 0 means either (a) the upstream regulator doesn’t publish website data at all, or (b) our scraper hasn’t started picking up the field yet.
• A coverage_pct near 100 means we’re at the upstream ceiling — any remaining gap is operators who haven’t disclosed a domain to the regulator, not a scraper bug.

Regulator-verified domains (Curaçao, Tobique)

Curaçao and Tobique publish no bulk domain list — but both run a per-domain verification surface of their own: the CGA certificate portal (cert.cga.cw, including the /token registry that lists each licence’s complete approved-domain cluster) and the Tobique validation seal (validate.thetgc.ca). Our coverage for these two jurisdictions is built directly on those pages:

• Every CW/TGC domain we hold carries the regulator’s own verification_url — surfaced on /v1/check so you can confirm the verdict against the primary source yourself.
• A nightly re-verification pass re-reads up to 500 stored pages per jurisdiction, oldest first — every Tobique seal each night, each Curaçao certificate every 2–3 days — and moves domain_status only on a clean read of the regulator’s own words — in both directions (active ↔ delisted), never on a guess. A page we cannot fetch or parse changes nothing.
• Weekly discovery finds what’s new: a CGA /token registry sweep (more complete than the published OGL PDF) and a Tobique headless-render pass over candidate casino sites (the seal is JS-injected in site footers, so a plain fetch can’t see it).

This makes CW/TGC domain rows stronger than a register listing: each one is backed by a regulator page we re-checked within the last three days.

Numbers can shift when methodology changes

The 1.4.0 changelog (2026-04-28) introduced this metric. Prior versions reported coverage as total_domains / total_licenses per jurisdiction, which inflated KH (3+ domains per IGL holder average made it read 91% even though only 42 of 61 holders had any domain disclosed) and deflated UKGC (the 17.3% denominator was 2,660 total ops including 1,594 non-remote licensees, dragging the rate down).

If you compare numbers in a 1.3.x response to numbers in ≥1.4.0, expect movement. The DB hasn’t changed — only the question we’re asking it.

Current per-jurisdiction status

As of 2026-09-30 (read from /v1/health/coverage, where the live numbers always are):

Jur	coverage_pct	With domain / normative	Reading
AN	99%	1,394 / 1,405	Near-ceiling — the remaining AN operators chose not to disclose a domain upstream
CW	93%	566 / 607	Was 0% until 1.9.0 — built from the CGA’s own verification portal (/token clusters + certificates), ~4,850 domain links, each re-verified against its certificate every 2–3 days
MGA	93%	106 / 114	Post-enrichment ceiling (a handful of B2C operators omit the Website Urls section upstream)
KH	73%	46 / 63	Matches the upstream ceiling — the missing IGL holders chose not to disclose
UKGC	55%	520 / 937	Upstream ceiling — only Remote-license holders in domain-names.csv can be covered
TGC	16%	28 / 171	Seal-discovery live (weekly headless-render pass) — growing run by run; the register itself publishes no website column
IOM	88%	14 / 16	At the upstream ceiling — the two Full licensees without a domain (PlaySmart IOM, Premier Gateway International) have no website in their register profile. 50 domain links across 27 licensees in all, suppliers included

Questions about a specific jurisdiction’s upstream behaviour — founder@igregulator.io.