21.com Casino: A 2018 Brand Under New Ownership, and Its Sister Sites

Reviewed by Emma Jenkins
Published: 28th July 2026

21.com turned up in the new-casino listings this summer, and it does not belong there. The brand opened in 2018, the address behind it was registered in 1995, and the web archive holds more than two thousand copies of it. What set off the listings is real enough, but it is not a launch: the casino has changed hands and changed regulator, and the site that came back out the other side looks and reads like a new one.

That makes the sister site question unusually interesting, because the answer runs backwards. 21.com used to sit on a Malta licence alongside nine other casinos. It does not any more. The nine are still there. The Anjouan licence it trades on now carries one domain and one only.

Below is the full trail, taken from two regulators’ own records rather than from review sites: who held the brand before, who holds it now, when the handover shows up in the archive, and what the casino has turned into. There is a selection of other casino sites to browse on the way down.

The Ten Casinos 21.com Left Behind

BP Group Limited, of Guza Fava Street in Sliema and formerly known as Betpoint Group, holds Malta Gaming Authority licence MGA/B2C/203/2011. 21.com was its best-known brand for years, and Maltese licensing publishes the domain list for each licensee, so this is checkable rather than remembered. We read BP Group’s authorisation page on 28 July 2026. Ten web addresses are listed on it. 21.com is not one of them.

The ten that remain are Kodabet, Karhubet, Muhkee, UltraCasino, NeonVegas, Nitro Casino, Justspin, Rapid Casino, XLBet and Vauhdikas. Several are Finnish-facing pay-and-play brands built around Zimpler, with no registration form and a deposit box on the front page. Those ten are still stablemates of one another. They are former stablemates of this casino, which is a different claim, and it is the one this page is making.

On the other side of the move there is nothing to list. The Anjouan Gaming Board publishes domains against licences, and licence ALSI-202511047-FI2, issued to SkyHigh Innovations Ltd on 30 November 2025, carries a single entry: 21.com. Some licensees on that register hold thirty or forty addresses. This one holds one, which means either the operator runs nothing else, or anything else it runs sits on paperwork with a different name on it.

Three of the ten former stablemates, shown below as their own homepages present them. None of the ten has a write-up here yet.

It is worth saying plainly what a move like this does and does not tell you. A brand leaving a Malta licence for an Anjouan one is a commercial and regulatory decision, and there are ordinary reasons for it, from market focus to the cost and reporting load of a European licence. What it does mean in practice is that the floor underneath the account has moved: the supervisory regime, the approved supplier list and the dispute scheme are all different from the ones that applied to the same brand two years ago.

If you played at 21.com before, the important thing to understand is that the company you dealt with is not the company running it now. Any impression formed under BP Group belongs to BP Group, and the ten brands still on that licence are the ones it applies to.

21.com Reviewed

A Casino Rebuilt Around Crypto and Sport

The site that exists today calls itself a crypto casino and sports betting brand in its own page title, which is not how 21.com described itself for most of its life. The design is confident: black background, an acid-green wordmark, live participation counters showing roughly 14,000 people in the casino and 4,000 in the sportsbook, and a welcome offer of up to $5,000 with 100 free spins spread over the first four deposits.

The welcome banner is the detail that stops you. It is built around two MotoGP riders in Prima Pramac Yamaha leathers under the line “prepare to play great”, which is a level of sports marketing that costs real money and is not usually seen on an offshore licence. Underneath it the popular games row runs Sugar Rush Super Scatter, Gates of Olympus Super Scatter, Wanted Dead or a Wild, Sweet Bonanza 1000, Le Bandit and Le Fisherman, most of them carrying Drops & Wins badges, so Pragmatic Play and Hacksaw dominate the shelf. The sportsbook covers football, basketball, baseball, hockey, volleyball, NFL, esports and badminton from the front page alone.

Reading the Handover in the Archive

The change of hands can be dated fairly closely without taking anyone’s word for it. Archived copies of the homepage carry the plain title “21.com” through to June 2025. By December 2025 the title had become “21.com – Play Great”. By June 2026 it read “21.com – Crypto Casino & Sports Betting” and the footer named SkyHigh Innovations Ltd in Belize under the Anjouan licence.

The licence itself was issued on 30 November 2025, which sits neatly in the middle of that window. Put the three together and the sequence is clear: new paperwork at the end of 2025, a repositioned brand through the first half of 2026, and a casino that reads as a launch to anyone arriving without the history. Aggregators picking it up as new are not inventing anything, they are simply mistaking a relaunch for an opening.

What the Two Licences Actually Change

On the Malta licence, 21.com sat under a regulator that publishes the approved domain list, the approved game suppliers and a named dispute scheme for every licensee. BP Group’s entry still shows all of that: eCogra as its adjudicator, and a supplier list running through Play’n GO, Yggdrasil, Relax Gaming, Nolimit City, Playtech and others.

The Anjouan register publishes the licensee, the domains and the dates, and that is where it stops. There is no approved-supplier list, no named adjudicator and no equivalent of the Maltese authorisation page. Neither regime gives a British player anything, since neither is the UK Gambling Commission. But if you are weighing how much of an operator’s conduct is publicly visible, the two are not comparable, and the brand has moved from one to the other.

21.com Key Facts

Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths: an eight-year trading history under its old owner, which is more than almost anything else covered on this site can claim; a properly built site with live participation counters, a full sportsbook and serious sports marketing behind it; a games shelf led by names people recognise and a running Drops & Wins network promotion; and an ownership trail that can be followed end to end through two public registers.

Weaknesses: the regulatory floor has moved from Malta to Anjouan, which publishes far less about how a licensee operates and names no dispute scheme; the company answering for the brand today is a Belize registration with no public record behind it and only one domain to its name; there is no UK Gambling Commission licence, so no GamStop and no adjudicator; and the brand’s reputation was built by a company that no longer runs it, which is exactly the sort of thing a returning player would not notice.

Where a UK Reader Gets the Same Thing With Cover

What 21.com does well is combine a serious sportsbook with a Pragmatic-heavy slots floor and market itself properly. Britain has several licensed operators doing the same, with the difference that the regulator can act against them.

Betfair is the closest match on the sports side, with the exchange as well as a fixed-odds book and a casino behind the same login. Ladbrokes covers the same ground with a promotions calendar shaped by decades of high-street betting and a slots library that includes the Drops & Wins titles 21.com leads with. For anyone who was there for the games rather than the football, Virgin Games has the larger library and a rewards scheme that does not depend on multi-deposit packages. All three hold UK Gambling Commission licences, which means the deposit limit you set is enforced, GamStop closes them all at once, and a disputed payout goes to an adjudicator rather than a support inbox.

None of them will match a $5,000 headline, and that is a rule rather than a shortcoming: UK licensing constrains how offers are presented so that the terms are legible before you opt in.

21.com: Questions People Are Asking

Who owns 21.com now?

SkyHigh Innovations Ltd, a company incorporated in Belize with registration number 000049656 and an address on San Victor Street in Orange Walk Town. That is the name in the casino’s own footer today, and it is the licence holder named on the Anjouan register. A Cypriot company, Nowormonday Technologies Ltd, registration HE 484787 in Larnaca, acts as its payment agent.

Did 21.com used to be a Malta casino?

It did. The brand opened in 2018 under BP Group Limited, a Sliema company trading on Malta Gaming Authority licence MGA/B2C/203/2011, and BP Group itself was formerly known as Betpoint Group. That arrangement has ended. When we read the authority’s own authorisation page for BP Group on 28 July 2026 it listed ten approved web addresses and 21.com was not among them.

What are 21.com’s sister sites?

On paper, none. Anjouan licence ALSI-202511047-FI2 carries exactly one domain, 21.com, so there is nothing else on the record to point at. The interesting list is the one it left behind: Kodabet, Karhubet, Muhkee, UltraCasino, NeonVegas, Nitro Casino, Justspin, Rapid Casino, XLBet and Vauhdikas are all still together on BP Group’s Malta licence. Three of them are pictured further down this page.

Is 21.com a new casino?

No, and anyone describing it that way has read the wrong signal. The domain goes back to 1995, the archive holds more than two thousand captures of it, and the first security certificate for the casino dates from June 2018. What changed recently is the licence and the owner, not the age of the brand. It is a 2018 casino under 2025 ownership.

When did the change of ownership happen?

Between December 2025 and the middle of 2026, on the evidence available. The Anjouan licence was issued on 30 November 2025. Archived copies of the homepage still carried the plain “21.com” title through June 2025, showed “21.com – Play Great” that December, and by June 2026 were titled “21.com – Crypto Casino & Sports Betting” with the Belize company named in the footer.

Can people in the UK play at 21.com?

Not lawfully. An Anjouan licence carries no permission to serve Britain, and there is no UK Gambling Commission licence behind this brand. That is a change from its Malta years in terms of the regulatory floor underneath it, though Malta never gave it UK access either. GamStop does not reach it and no British adjudicator will hear a complaint about it.

What is on the 21.com homepage today?

A welcome offer of up to $5,000 with 100 free spins spread across the first four deposits, live counters showing roughly 14,000 people in the casino and 4,000 in the sportsbook, and a banner built around two MotoGP riders in Prima Pramac Yamaha leathers. The popular games row is dominated by Pragmatic Play and Hacksaw titles carrying Drops & Wins badges, and there is a VIP scheme called the 21 Elite Club.

Our Verdict on 21.com

The most useful thing this page can tell you is that 21.com is not a new casino and is not the casino it was. The brand dates from 2018, the domain from 1995, and the operator answering for it today has been in place since roughly the turn of this year. Anyone arriving from a new-casino listing has been pointed at a relaunch, and anyone returning after a couple of years away is dealing with a different company from the one they remember.

The site itself is good. It is well built, the sportsbook is real, the game shelf is mainstream, and the MotoGP marketing suggests a business spending money rather than skimming. Against that, the move from a Malta licence to an Anjouan one takes away most of what was publicly checkable about how the operator behaves, and the company now behind it is a Belize registration with a single domain to its name and no track record of its own.

For a British reader there is no route in and no protection if there were. The more useful takeaway is the structural one: a familiar brand name is a claim about a website, not about the company running it, and the two can part company without anything on the front page changing.

New Sister Site rating: 6/10

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