Who operates Moon.com, and is it licensed?

The company on the record

Open Moon’s terms of service and the operator is stated in the first section. Moon International Limited is incorporated in the Union of the Comoros under registration number 16151. Its registered office is at Hamchako, Mutsamudu, on the Autonomous Island of Anjouan.

Three things about that are worth saying plainly.

First, it is a real, named legal entity with a real address. A site that intends to disappear does not usually give you a company number to look up, because it makes the exit harder. Moon does.

Second, it is offshore. The Comoros is a small island nation in the Indian Ocean, and Anjouan is one of its autonomous islands. Companies register there because it is quick and inexpensive, and because Anjouan runs its own gaming licensing regime aimed at online operators. That is not a mark against Moon on its own; a large share of crypto-native betting sites use similar jurisdictions. It does mean the protection you get is the protection written into Moon’s terms, not the protection of a domestic regulator in your own country.

Third, the entity and the address are the only company facts moon.com publishes. There is no “about us” naming directors, no investor list and no ownership chart on the site. The reported Stake-founder connection comes from press coverage and public LinkedIn postings, not from Moon.

What the terms say about licensing

Here is the part that matters for the word “licensed”. Moon’s terms of service contain no licence number, no name of a licensing authority, and no link to a register. They state the incorporation and leave it there.

The terms also acknowledge, in their restrictions section, that Moon does not hold local gambling licences in the jurisdictions it excludes. That is a straightforward statement, and which jurisdictions those are is a question for Moon’s terms and our availability answer.

So on the strict question, “does moon.com publish a gambling licence?”, the answer today is no.

The third-party claim

One review site reports that Moon holds an Anjouan gaming licence, gives a licence reference and says it is listed on the Anjouan regulator’s public register. We have not confirmed that entry against the register ourselves, and Moon does not print it, so we do not repeat the reference here. We are flagging it once so you know the claim exists and know its status: unverified by us, unpublished by Moon.

If Moon adds the licence to its terms or its footer, or if we independently confirm the register entry, this page will say so and link to the source. Until then, the honest description is: Moon International Limited is incorporated in the Comoros, and any licence sits behind a claim we cannot yet check.

What this means for you as a player

The practical consequences of an offshore operator with an unpublished licence are specific, and none of them are reasons to panic.

Your contract is the terms. Disputes, account closures and withdrawal reviews are handled under Moon’s terms of service and its own complaint route. There is no national ombudsman for you to escalate to. Read the terms once, especially the sections on identity verification, withdrawals and the pricing edge Moon reserves, so nothing in them surprises you later.

Identity checks are the trade-off for anonymity you do not get. Moon asks for a government ID and a proof of address before your first deposit and again before withdrawals, with source-of-funds requests for higher-risk accounts. Offshore does not mean no paperwork.

Responsible-gambling tools exist in the contract. The terms describe a Take a Break option from one day to three months and a self-exclusion of at least six months or permanent. Moon has no standalone responsible-gambling page that we could find, so the terms are where you will find those tools described.

Funds move in crypto. Deposits are crypto-only and withdrawals are paid the same way, after anti-money-laundering checks, within limits Moon sets, minus network fees. There is no card issuer or bank in the chain to reverse a transaction for you, so treat a first small withdrawal as part of your own due diligence.

Our reading

Moon clears the bar that separates a real operator from a front: a named company, a registered address, a contract that describes its obligations, and identity checks it has no reason to run unless it plans to stay. It falls short of the bar a strictly regulated operator would clear, because the licence is not on the page and the company is only weeks into public operation.

That is why the licence line is the one amber item on our verdict, and why our rating sits at 3.5 rather than higher. Sign up, verify, learn the product with play money, and keep your first real stake small while the platform builds a track record. The safety checklist turns that into ten concrete steps.