Who owns Royal Reels? Licence claims checked against official registers

Who owns Royal Reels?

ACMA named Digibrite S.R.L., of Avlonos 1, 1075 Nicosia, Cyprus, as the company behind Royal Reels. The authority investigated from 8 May 2023 and issued a formal warning on 14 June 2023 over Royal Reels and Reef Reels under section 15(2A) of the Interactive Gambling Act. Status: Verified. Source: ACMA, Formal warning to Digibrite S.R.L., accessed 6 October 2026 (ACMA) and ACMA, Action on interactive gambling, April–June 2023 (ACMA).

Review databases do not all name the same company, which is why the search term “royal reels owner” returns different answers. That finding carries the status Needs clarification, as of 3 June 2026.

The registered address is disputed in the same way. Databases list Costa Rica, Trustpilot’s self-declared company details list Australia, and ACMA’s warning gives the Cyprus address above. We treat the ACMA record as the official one. Status: Resolved, as of 14 June 2023.

Why it matters: if you want to complain, chase a payment or identify who holds your money, the company name and address on a review page may not match the one a regulator has used.

What we do not know yet: no register we checked lists an approved Royal Reels website, so we cannot confirm a current corporate entity from a licensing authority. That gap is tracked as Under investigation, last checked 6 October 2026, and is covered further on our transparency check.

Is Royal Reels licensed by PAGCOR or Curacao?

No register we checked shows a current licence for Royal Reels under any of the names involved. The databases themselves disagree about what licence, if any, exists. That conflict is Needs clarification, as of 2 October 2026.

On the PAGCOR claim, the regulator cancelled all internet gaming licences with effect from 15 December 2024 and says claims of a valid licence are fraudulent, so a listed PAGCOR licence cannot be current. Status: Resolved. Source: PAGCOR, Offshore gaming, accessed 6 October 2026 (PAGCOR).

On the Curacao claims, our reads of the Curacao Gaming Authority licence registry dated 2 October 2026 and the enforcement register dated 14 September 2026 found no Digibrite, Royal Reels or Viral Market entry. This was an automated read and a manual recheck is pending, so it stays Under investigation. Sources: Curacao Gaming Authority, Licence registry, 2 October 2026 (register) and Enforcement register, 14 September 2026 (register).

We also checked two other registers often cited for offshore brands. Neither the Kahnawake Gaming Commission permit-holder list (updated 28 September 2023) nor the Anjouan agent’s register of gaming licences shows Royal Reels, Digibrite or Viral Market. Status: Verified, with the caveat that published lists may be stale. Sources: Kahnawake Gaming Commission, Permit holders (list) and Anjouan Corporate Services, Register of gaming licenses (register), both accessed 6 October 2026.

Separately, there is no Australian licence. ACMA found the service breached the Interactive Gambling Act and asked internet providers to block it from July 2023. Status: Verified. Source: ACMA, ACMA blocks 5 more illegal offshore sites, July 2023 (ACMA). The detail of that block sits on our legal status page.

Why it matters: a licence badge on a review page is not a register entry. If no regulator lists the operator, there is no complaints body above it to appeal to.

What we do not know yet: whether a licence exists under a company name we have not yet connected to the brand. Our register-by-register workings are set out in the licence claims investigation.

What are Royal Reels sister sites?

The brands tied to the same operator in the records we hold are Reef Reels, The Pokies and ReefSpins. Status for this finding: Verified, as of September 2025.

Sources: ACMA, Action on interactive gambling, July–September 2025 (ACMA); Casino.guru, ReefSpins Casino review (Casino.guru); TipCasino, Digibrite SRL review (plain text, no link). All accessed 6 October 2026.

For readers searching “royal reels sister sites australia”, the practical point is that these brands sit under the same operator name in the regulator’s records, so the same licensing gap and the same lack of Australian oversight apply to each of them. ACMA’s quarterly reports read by us list more than 14 blocked Royal Reels domains numbered up to 21, plus Reef Reels, ReefSpins and The Pokies mirrors, as of March 2026 (Verified). We describe mirrors only by number, never as addresses; the pattern is set out in our numbered domains investigation.

What we do not know yet: whether other brands share the same ownership without being named in an ACMA notice. We have not found a company register entry that lists Digibrite’s full brand portfolio.

Is Reef Reels the same company?

Reef Reels was named in the same ACMA formal warning as Royal Reels, addressed to Digibrite S.R.L. on 14 June 2023. Status: Verified. Source: ACMA, Formal warning to Digibrite S.R.L., accessed 6 October 2026.

That is the extent of what the official record says. ACMA’s notice ties both brand names to one warned company; it does not set out a corporate structure, shareholders or group accounts, and we have not seen one.

Why it matters: a player who stops using one brand because of a dispute may open an account with another brand run by the same operator without realising it.

How old is the brand, and why do the dates disagree?

Databases give launch years between 2021 and 2023, while ACMA records show the brand operating by 8 May 2023, when its investigation began. Status: Needs clarification, as of 8 May 2023.

Why it matters: when basic facts such as the launch year and the company name differ between sources, licence claims from the same sources deserve the same caution.

What we do not know yet: which launch year, if any, is correct. None of the databases cites a register or a corporate filing for its figure.

This topic was last checked on 6 October 2026, with the site-wide status recorded as no current licence found and the operator named by ACMA. If you have documents that bear on ownership or a licence, you can send them through our contact page. If money or gambling is causing you harm, Gambling Help Online offers free, confidential support 24/7 on 1800 858 858.

What players report

This page rests on official records and review-database claims rather than on player reports: the questions here concern ownership, licensing registers and company names, which players are not well placed to verify from the outside. For first-hand accounts from people who have played at Royal Reels, including disputes over withdrawals and account closures, see the complaints tracker.

How to read these reports

Where player reports do appear elsewhere on this site, they are self-selected posts from public platforms, not verified by our research desk. We show positive and negative reports side by side, and each one describes an individual experience rather than the experience of all customers.

Latest changes

• 6 October 2026 — Resolved: ACMA’s formal warning of 14 June 2023 names Digibrite S.R.L. of Nicosia, Cyprus, settling a Costa Rica address given by one database.
• 6 October 2026 — The Curacao register was read automatically; a manual recheck is scheduled. See licence claims checked against the registers for the full investigation.

No other watch-log entries are recorded against this topic. This page was last checked on 6 October 2026, the same date as the site-wide last material update.

How we checked this

The findings on this page come from an official regulator record (ACMA’s formal warning and quarterly enforcement reports), three licence registers (Curacao, Kahnawake and Anjouan), and seven review databases that publish operator and licensing details for Royal Reels (Casino.guru, AskGamblers, LCB, TipCasino, Slotozilla, SlotsSpot, CasinoAlpha and Betsquare), plus the Trustpilot profile for company-address details. We read these sources as at 6 October 2026. We did not open an account, make a deposit or attempt a withdrawal; this page reports what registers, regulators and third-party databases show, not our own play-testing. Our method for choosing and labelling sources is set out on the methodology page.

Sources

1. ACMA, “ACMA blocks 5 more illegal offshore sites”, accessed 6 October 2026: acma.gov.au
2. ACMA, “Action on interactive gambling, Apr–Jun 2023”, accessed 6 October 2026: acma.gov.au
3. ACMA, “Formal warning to Digibrite S.R.L.”, accessed 6 October 2026: acma.gov.au
4. ACMA, “Action on interactive gambling, Jul–Sep 2025”, accessed 6 October 2026: acma.gov.au
5. PAGCOR, “Offshore gaming”, accessed 6 October 2026: pagcor.ph
6. Curacao Gaming Authority, “Licence registry, 2 Oct 2026”, accessed 6 October 2026: gamingcontrol.spin-cdn.com
7. Curacao Gaming Authority, “Enforcement register, 14 Sep 2026”, accessed 6 October 2026: gamingcontrol.spin-cdn.com
8. Kahnawake Gaming Commission, “Permit holders”, accessed 6 October 2026: gamingcommission.ca
9. Anjouan Corporate Services, “Register of gaming licenses”, accessed 6 October 2026: gamingcontrolanjouan.org
10. Casino.guru, “Royal Reels Casino review”, accessed 6 October 2026: casino.guru
11. Casino.guru, “ReefSpins Casino review”, accessed 6 October 2026: casino.guru
12. AskGamblers, “Royal Reels Casino review”, accessed 6 October 2026: askgamblers.com
13. LCB, “Royal Reels review”, accessed 6 October 2026: lcb.org
14. TipCasino, “Digibrite SRL review”, accessed 6 October 2026 (link not published by the source).
15. Slotozilla, “Royal Reels Casino review AU”, accessed 6 October 2026 (link not published by the source).
16. SlotsSpot, “Royal Reels Casino review”, accessed 6 October 2026 (link not published by the source).
17. CasinoAlpha, “Royal Reels Casino review”, accessed 6 October 2026 (link not published by the source).
18. Betsquare, “Royal Reels Casino review”, accessed 6 October 2026 (link not published by the source).
19. Trustpilot, “Royal Reels profile (global site)”, accessed 6 October 2026 (link not published by the source).

Corrections and new evidence can be sent through our contact page. This page is written by the Royal Reels Watch research desk and reviewed by Justin Moore.