Spain
Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ)
Spain’s national gambling regulator — a strict, EU-statutory licence tied to the .es domain requirement and a two-tier general-plus-singular licensing model unlike almost anywhere else.
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Operators Licensed by Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ)
Every brand below has an active licence from Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) confirmed in our own records — sorted by AskBigBonus Trust Index.
What Is Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ)?
The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) is Spain’s national regulator for state-wide online gambling, operating under Law 13/2011 on the Regulation of Gambling. It sits within Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs and is the sole authority for online licences that cover the whole of Spain, separate from the additional regional rules some Spanish autonomous communities apply to land-based gambling.
Spain uses a two-tier licensing model: an operator needs both a general licence (covering a broad category of games, awarded without a fixed cap on numbers) and at least one singular licence for the specific product it offers, rather than one all-in-one authorisation.
History & Background
Spain’s online gambling market was unregulated until Law 13/2011 created the current statutory framework and established the DGOJ as its single national regulator — one of the more recent major EU markets to move from an unregulated to a fully licensed online model.
Licence Types
General licence
A broad authorisation covering a category of games (e.g. betting, or "other games"), granted through the DGOJ’s public tender process without a fixed limit on how many are issued.
Singular licence
A specific licence tied to one particular product under a general licence — an operator needs both a general and a singular licence to actually offer a given game.
Licensing Requirements
- Applicants must be a public limited company (sociedad anónima) or an equivalent structure registered in the EEA, with gambling as its sole corporate purpose, and a permanent representative in Spain able to receive official notifications if the company isn’t Spain-based.
- Licensees must operate from a domain ending in .es — a distinctive requirement almost no other jurisdiction on this list shares — and pass technical, financial, and reputational compliance checks before launch.
- Reported costs include technical report fees, a per-licence registration fee, and a separate fee for each individual gambling licence, on top of on-going compliance and reporting obligations.
Player Protections
- Spain applies national deposit-limit and loss-limit rules and requires licensees to support a self-exclusion mechanism recognised across the regulated market.
- The DGOJ requires ongoing technical, financial, and reliability compliance from licensees, not just a one-time approval at launch.
How to Verify a Licence from Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ)
- 01Confirm the licence directly through the DGOJ’s own electronic office (sede.ordenacionjuego.gob.es), since a Spain-facing brand should hold both a general and a singular licence — a general licence alone doesn’t authorise a specific game.
- 02Check that the operator’s Spain-facing site actually resolves on a .es domain, since that’s a specific, checkable requirement of a genuine Spanish licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a DGOJ licence actually cover?
Spain uses a two-tier system: a general licence covers a broad category of games, and a singular licence authorises one specific product under it. An operator needs both — holding only a general licence doesn’t mean every product it offers in Spain is actually authorised.
Why do Spanish-licensed gambling sites use a .es domain?
It’s a specific, distinctive requirement of the Spanish licensing regime: operators must run their Spain-facing service from a domain ending in .es. It’s one of the more easily checkable signals that a site is actually operating under a genuine Spanish licence rather than just claiming to.
Keep Reading
Licensing status can change. AskBigBonus uses the operator information available in its database and recommends checking the current regulatory record on Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ)’s own public register before making decisions. This page is informational only, and inclusion of a brand does not constitute an endorsement.