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.

Is Moon.com licensed? Yes, and we checked the register ourselves

Moon’s terms of service do not print a licence number, a licensing authority or a link to a register. They state the incorporation and stop. For the first week of this site that was as far as we could take it, and this page said so.

On 10 September 2026 we searched the Anjouan Gaming Authority’s official public register, the regulator for internet gaming licences issued under the laws of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of the Comoros. Searching the register for “moon.com” returns one matching licensee:

Company	Status	Licence number	Type	Issued	Expires	Domains
Moon International Ltd	Valid	ALSI-202601063-FI2	B2C	2026-01-31	2027-01-30	moon.com

Source: anjouangaming.com/license-register, search “moon.com”. The company name on the register matches the operator named in Moon’s terms, the domain matches, and the licence was issued seven months before the public launch, which fits an operator that licensed before it opened rather than after it was asked.

Two honest caveats. The register is the regulator’s own page, so it is the right source, but it is a page we read rather than a certificate we hold; you can repeat the search in under a minute and should. And a licence from Anjouan is a licence from a small offshore regulator, not from the regulator in your own country. Moon’s terms also state plainly that it does not hold local gambling licences in the jurisdictions it excludes; 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 is still no. On the question that matters, “does Moon hold one?”, the answer is yes, on the regulator’s public register, valid until 30 January 2027.

What this means for you as a player

The practical consequences of an offshore operator with an offshore 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, with the Anjouan Gaming Authority’s compliance reporting route behind that. There is no national ombudsman in your own country 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 now also clears the licence bar, on the regulator’s register if not in its own terms. What it has not yet had time to build is a track record: the company is weeks into public operation, the spread it charges is undisclosed, and withdrawal experience is thin.

That is why the licence line moved from amber to checked on our verdict on 10 September 2026, and why our rating moved from 3.5 to 4 out of 5 the same day, 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. If you would rather listen, the Moon Leverage podcast’s “Is Moon.com legit?” episode walks through the same checks in five minutes, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.