Licensed operator UKGC

Targetlocal Limited

Operator · UK Gambling Commission / 422 · trading as ken howells sports betting

Targetlocal Limited is a gambling operator licensed by the UK Gambling Commission — licence 000422-R-336567-002, status active.[1] It has 3 licence records: 2 active and 1 surrendered. Status read from the UK Gambling Commission's page gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-data.zip. It has 4 domains on record (4 listed, 0 no longer listed); the 4 listed are its licensed brand domains. Last verified against the official register on (10 h ago).

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Active licences
2
UKGC
Listed domains
4
on the register
First licensed
2009
earliest issue date printed
Status changes, 12 mo
3
across its licence records

Licence records for Targetlocal Limited 3

Brands listed for Targetlocal Limited 4

Targetlocal Limited operates 4 brands and gambling sites: kenhowells.com, www.kenhowells.com, www.messagebet.co.uk, www.messagebets.com. Each is verified daily against the operator’s licence record.[2]

domain
status
first seen
kenhowells.com
active
2026-04-17
www.kenhowells.com
active
2026-04-17
www.messagebet.co.uk
active
2026-04-17
www.messagebets.com
active
2026-04-17

Trading names 1

ken howells sports betting

Regulatory footprint

on 1 of 14 registers we read

“No record” means we hold no licence for Targetlocal Limited on that register — not proof of anything else. For Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Colombia and Ukraine we read only online licence types.

Regulatory actions 0

No fine, suspension or warning linked to Targetlocal Limited in the last 3 months — which is not a clean record. We collect the actions the UK Gambling Commission, the Malta Gaming Authority and Curaçao's CGA publish, and link one only when the publication names an entity we can match. Sign in for three years of history.

Activity

  1. 2026-10-16
    UKGC 000422-R-336567-002: status changed — suspended → active
    Withdrawn 2026-10-22: Read from a frozen December 2025 copy of the UKGC register that the Commission's URL served on 2026-10-16; the register itself did not change. See iGregulator's incident write-up of 2026-10-16 (not public).
  2. 2026-09-23
    UKGC 000422-R-336567-002: status changed — active → suspended
    Restores the status we held before our 2026-09-22 event (suspended), read again from the normal register export. That event came from a different export and has been withdrawn. Not a new decision by the Commission.
  3. 2026-09-22
    UKGC 000422-R-336567-002: status changed — suspended → active
    Withdrawn 2026-09-30: Read from a different export that the Gambling Commission's register URL served on 2026-09-22 (unquoted CSV, no End Date column, 3,458 licences), in which licences the register lists as surrendered, lapsed or revoked read Active. Not the register's status for this licence: the next normal export restored the status we held before, suspended.
  4. 2026-09-21
    UKGC 000422-R-336567-002: status changed — active → suspended
  5. 2026-09-17
    UKGC 000422-A-103260-007: status corrected — revoked → surrendered
    Status corrected: the Gambling Commission publishes this licence as "Surrendered" — the operator gave it up. It was mapped onto `revoked`, which asserts an enforcement decision the Commission did not publish.
  6. 2026-05-07
    UKGC 000422-A-103260-007: first recorded by iGregulator as revoked
    Withdrawn 2026-10-01: Recorded as revoked by a status-mapping error: the Gambling Commission publishes this licence as "Surrendered" (the operator gave it up). No revocation was published. The mapping was fixed on 2026-09-17; this event was withdrawn on 2026-10-01.
  7. 2026-04-17
    UKGC 000422-R-336567-002: first recorded by iGregulator as active
  8. 2026-04-17
    UKGC 000422-N-103261-013: first recorded by iGregulator as active

The latest 8 events across its licences; each licence page holds its full history and the evidence behind it.

Evidence

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Sources

· 2
  1. [1]
    • Licence 000422-R-336567-002: status active, read from this page on 2026-11-14. Stored copy: SHA-256 50c94b767283e63ee93d11f58ba62debc2d9b2ae085d62b0226bbbf144762b71, first captured 2026-11-14.
    • Licence 000422-R-336567-002: listed here; last seen listed on 2026-11-14.
    • Licence 000422-A-103260-007: status surrendered, read from this page on 2026-10-16. Stored copy: SHA-256 1e9c57aa0a10e5f0a97884216ccd72985c27d684f57ce03128f4c955a716cdab, first captured 2026-10-16.
    • Licence 000422-A-103260-007: listed here; last seen listed on 2026-10-16.
    • Licence 000422-N-103261-013: status active, read from this page on 2026-11-14. Stored copy: SHA-256 50c94b767283e63ee93d11f58ba62debc2d9b2ae085d62b0226bbbf144762b71, first captured 2026-11-14.
    • Licence 000422-N-103261-013: listed here; last seen listed on 2026-11-14.
  2. [2]
    How iGregulator verifies — https://igregulator.io/methodology/
    • How we read each register, how a domain is linked to an operator, and why a status only changes on a page a regulator published.

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{
  "query": {
    "domain": "kenhowells.com"
  },
  "verdict": "licensed",
  "verdict_detail": "kenhowells.com is listed, as of our read on 2026-11-14, on an active UK Gambling Commission licence held by Targetlocal Limited (licence 000422-R-336567-002).",
  "match": {
    "confidence": "high",
    "match_type": "domain_exact",
    "operator": "Targetlocal Limited",
    "operator_slug": "targetlocal-limited",
    "jurisdiction": "UKGC",
    "regulator_name": "UK Gambling Commission",
    "license_id": "cce8b267-4c5f-4cdc-9788-130be2bb36d4",
    "license_number": "000422-R-336567-002",
    "license_reference_is_ours": false,
    "status": "active",
    "status_source_url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-data.zip",
    "status_observed_at": "2026-11-14T03:00:09.157Z",
    "expires_at": null,
    "domain_association": "direct",
    "domain_status": "active",
    "matched_domain": "kenhowells.com",
    "domain_last_listed_at": "2026-11-14T03:00:09.160Z",
    "upstream_status": "Active",
    "status_qualifier": null,
    "verification_url": null,
    "verification_page_kind": null,
    "verification_page_status": null,
    "verification_page_read_at": null
  },
  "alternatives": [],
  "confidence": "high"
}

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Questions about Targetlocal Limited

What licences does Targetlocal Limited hold?

2 active licences in the registers we read: UK Gambling Commission (000422-N-103261-013) and UK Gambling Commission (000422-R-336567-002). 1 further licence record is not active.

Which sites does Targetlocal Limited run?

The registers we read list 4 sites for it: kenhowells.com, www.kenhowells.com, www.messagebet.co.uk and www.messagebets.com.

How current is this?

We last read the UK Gambling Commission register on 2026-11-14 03:00 UTC and aim to re-read it within 24 hours.

Related records

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