Operator · UK Gambling Commission / 4984 · trading as world animal protection trading company
World Animal Protection is a gambling operator licensed by the UK Gambling Commission — licence 004984-R-310886-016, status active.[1] It has 2 licence records: 2 active. Status read from the UK Gambling Commission's page gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-data.zip. It has 2 domains on record (2 listed, 0 no longer listed); the 2 listed are its licensed brand domains. Last verified against the official register on (11 h ago).
UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) · Remote
issued 2011-06-15 · expiry open-ended
UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) · Non-Remote
issued 2009-07-27 · expiry open-ended
World Animal Protection operates 2 brands and gambling sites: worldanimalprotection.charitylotteries.co.uk, www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/get-involved/play-our-weekly-lottery. Each is verified daily against the operator’s licence record.[2]
“No record” means we hold no licence for World Animal Protection on that register — not proof of anything else. For Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Colombia and Ukraine we read only online licence types.
No fine, suspension or warning linked to World Animal Protection 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.
The latest 2 events across its licences; each licence page holds its full history and the evidence behind it.
50c94b767283e63ee93d11f58ba62debc2d9b2ae085d62b0226bbbf144762b71, first captured 2026-11-14.50c94b767283e63ee93d11f58ba62debc2d9b2ae085d62b0226bbbf144762b71, first captured 2026-11-14.Are you World Animal Protection, or is something wrong? Request a correction — we check every request against the register, and log what we withdraw on /corrections.
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curl "https://api.igregulator.io/v1/check?domain=worldanimalprotection.charitylotteries.co.uk"{
"query": {
"domain": "worldanimalprotection.charitylotteries.co.uk"
},
"verdict": "licensed",
"verdict_detail": "worldanimalprotection.charitylotteries.co.uk is listed, as of our read on 2026-11-14, on an active UK Gambling Commission licence held by World Animal Protection (licence 004984-R-310886-016).",
"match": {
"confidence": "high",
"match_type": "domain_exact",
"operator": "World Animal Protection",
"operator_slug": "world-animal-protection",
"jurisdiction": "UKGC",
"regulator_name": "UK Gambling Commission",
"license_id": "f617d13e-7383-46b3-ab52-35aff8ff32b7",
"license_number": "004984-R-310886-016",
"license_reference_is_ours": false,
"status": "active",
"status_source_url": "https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/downloads/business-licence-data.zip",
"status_observed_at": "2026-11-14T03:00:12.278Z",
"expires_at": null,
"domain_association": "direct",
"domain_status": "active",
"matched_domain": "worldanimalprotection.charitylotteries.co.uk",
"domain_last_listed_at": "2026-11-14T03:00:12.279Z",
"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"
}response trimmed: the live one also carries _meta (source URL, read times, register freshness)
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https://mcp.igregulator.io/mcp2 active licences in the registers we read: UK Gambling Commission (004984-N-304950-018) and UK Gambling Commission (004984-R-310886-016).
The registers we read list 2 sites for it: worldanimalprotection.charitylotteries.co.uk and www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/get-involved/play-our-weekly-lottery.
We last read the UK Gambling Commission register on 2026-11-14 03:00 UTC and aim to re-read it within 24 hours.