About This Site: Who Writes It and How We Work
I spent years on the operator side of this industry. That means I’ve sat in the meetings where bonus terms get written, and I know exactly which phrases are chosen because they read faster than they explain. "Wagering requirements" is not a neutral term — it’s a number someone picked deliberately. When I review an operator, I read the terms the way the person who drafted them would expect a lawyer to read them, not the way a banner expects you to.
Casino Rankings Info exists because the Australian market is crowded with review sites that rank operators by commission size and call it "editorial independence." I don’t. Here’s how the site actually works.
Who writes this
The site is run by one person with direct industry experience in regulated wagering, including familiarity with the Australian regulatory landscape — ACMA, the ACCC’s advertising rules, and the state-based bodies like Liquor & Gaming NSW and the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission. I’ve seen compliance documents from the inside. I know what a licence actually covers, and more importantly, what it doesn’t. A Curacao licence is not a UK Gambling Commission licence, and a review that treats them as equivalent is either lazy or paid for.
I don’t publish under a staff name, I don’t list awards, and I won’t invent a founding year or a readership figure. If a claim isn’t backed by something I can verify, it doesn’t go on the page.
How operators are evaluated
Every review on this site runs through the same checklist. No exceptions for partners.
- Licence verification. I check the licence number against the regulator’s public register — ACMA-recognised frameworks for Australian wagering, and the issuing authority’s own database for offshore operators. Screenshot of a badge means nothing; the register means everything.
- Terms, read in full. Wagering requirements, withdrawal caps, dormant-account fees, exclusion clauses. This is where most operators hide the interesting parts.
- Withdrawal testing. Identity verification is a legal requirement in Australia — government-issued ID before any payout. What I test is whether the process is upfront about it or whether it appears only after you’ve deposited and won. The difference matters.
- Complaint channels. Is there a working ADR pathway, a published complaints procedure, and live chat or phone support that actually answers within a reasonable time? I test them, not just read about them.
- Responsible gambling provision. Deposit limits you can set without emailing support. Visible links to Gambling Help Online. Any operator using light-hearted language about problem gambling fails this criterion outright.
How the site makes money
Casino Rankings Info earns commission from affiliate links on some pages. When you sign up through a link here, the operator may pay the site a percentage. That’s the business model, stated plainly.
Two things follow from it. First, a commission arrangement never influences a score — operators get the rating the checklist gives them, and several who pay nothing rank higher than several who do. Second, under Australian rules, commissions for referring gambling customers are restricted territory, and every arrangement on this site is structured to stay inside those lines. Where a page contains affiliate links, it says so on the page.
How content stays current
Reviews are revisited on a schedule, not on inspiration: licence status re-checked against the registers, bonus terms re-read, complaint procedures re-tested. Terms change quietly — a wagering requirement moves from 30x to 45x with no announcement. When I catch a change, the review gets updated and the revision date reflects it. Material that’s outdated gets corrected, not quietly buried.
If something on this site is wrong, email [email protected] and it gets fixed. Corrections with evidence are published; corrections without evidence get investigated first.
That’s the whole operation. One desk, one checklist, no invented staff.
Take it or check the registers yourself.