Casino Moons Has Closed (2026): What Is Left Online and What Happens to Your Balance

If you had money there, ACMA's general advice for an illegal operator that closes is that “you are unlikely to see your money again”. What you can still do is below.

What we found on 23 October 2026

None of these addresses has a login, a cashier, rules or a support contact. From Germany, the casino's address seemed to “answer”. That reply came from our own server, because the address points back at the machine asking. casinomoons.net being off ACMA's list on 23 October means only that it was not listed that day. Who owns it, or the second address, we do not know.

The “25 free spins” page

casinomoons.net is the page most people searching for the brand will find. Its title promises “Exclusive 25 Free Spins No Deposit”. It is one screen with a 2022 copyright line. It has no game lobby, no terms, no company name, no licence and no cashier.

Its sign-up path opens a blank page that redirects at once to nodepositcasino.name, a bonus-listing site. From Australia, that site sent us on to a page titled “Ozwin Casino No Deposit Bonus - Get $20 Free No Deposit”. We did not check whether that page belongs to Ozwin itself, and we do not rate its offer here. From Germany the chain ended differently, and we do not know why.

What this means for you: we found no sign that this page belongs to the casino. Anything you enter after its sign-up button goes to other sites, not to Casino Moons. In the archived copies of the casino's own site that we read, we did not find a 25 free spins offer. Its 2022 footer offered “Get 10 free spins!” for taking a survey instead.

When it closed, and ACMA's 2022 request

We cannot give an exact date, and we found no closing notice. The Internet Archive's last full copy of the casino's home page is from 3 November 2022. The casino's server still answered the archive's robot until 8 April 2023, sending it to a page called “/blocked”. There are no copies after that. By September 2026, when we audited our reviews, the address pointed nowhere.

A “/blocked” reply does not prove the casino had closed. The archive's robot got the same reply throughout 2022, while the casino was still live.

Before any of this, ACMA had acted. Its release of 18 August 2022 begins:

“The ACMA has requested that Australian internet service providers (ISPs) block more illegal offshore gambling and affiliate marketing websites.”

Casino Moons is the first name on the release's list of sites. ACMA says it “investigated and found these services to be operating in breach of the” Interactive Gambling Act 2001. The release names the brand, not its addresses. The casino's address is in an archived copy of ACMA's list from 25 September 2022. That is when the archive saw it, not necessarily when it was added.

Why the casino closed is not established. We do not know whether ACMA's request caused it.

Who ran it and what licence it claimed

The last regulator we found the site naming is Curaçao, in 2017, next to a blank company name. That is the site's claim, not a licence we verified; in 2022 it named no company or regulator at all.

The site changed what it said about itself over the years. These are its own words in archived copies:

• 2014: “Casino Moons is the newest Topgame Casino.” (copy of 20 September 2014)
• 2016: “The site is operated and managed by Blacknote Entertainment Group Limited, a company bearing registration nr 013529”, with a postal address in St. John's, Antigua (copy of 3 April 2016).
• 2017: “This website is owned and operated by . operates from , is licensed by the Government of Curacao”. The company name and address are blank. The page linked to a Curaçao seal we could not check, and its lobby code listed Betsoft and Rival games (copy of 3 June 2017).
• 2022: the footer and the site's settings named no company, no regulator and no licence number (copies of 22 August 2022).

We did not check Antigua's company register, and a 2016 company does not show who ran the site in 2022.

Some directories name other companies and licences. Blacknote matches the 2016 footer; the others we did not find in the archived pages we read (2011–2022).

If you had money in the account

• You cannot withdraw through the site. None of the addresses above has a login, a withdrawal form or a support contact.
• ACMA: regulators cannot help with an illegal operator. Its page for players says: “If you use an illegal service, Australian regulators will not be able to help you if: … the service provider withholds your winnings”. One case it lists: “The illegal operator closes its services, or moves them elsewhere, and your money disappears.” Its conclusion: “Unfortunately, you are unlikely to see your money again in these situations.” This is ACMA's general advice, not a ruling on Casino Moons.
• Of the three routes ACMA names, the third does not fit. For money stuck with an overseas gambling website, ACMA lists independent legal advice, a complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and “the relevant licensing authority”. The last regulator Casino Moons named was Curaçao, in 2017, beside a blank company name; in 2022 it named none. In our reading, there is no clear licensing authority to contact.
• You can report the site to ACMA. ACMA's complaint form is for “prohibited interactive gambling services (gambling websites)”, and ACMA says “You do not have to give us your name.” It is a report about a website, not a way to get money back.
• Do not pay anyone who offers to recover it. Scamwatch, the scam-warning service run by the ACCC, advises scam victims to work with their financial institution and to report such offers to the police; it does not say a bank will return a casino deposit. Of recovery offers it says: “You won’t recover any stolen money and the scammers will just steal more money from you.” It warns: “They might tell you they can track down stolen cryptocurrency.” And: “Never accept offers from anyone who says they can get your money back.” Scamwatch writes about scam victims in general; applying it to a closed casino is our reading.

For what ACMA and a bank can and cannot do about a complaint, see why Australia has no ombudsman for online casinos.

Casinos linked to Casino Moons

In 2016 Rich Casino, 21Dukes and Thebes Casino named the same company as Casino Moons in their footers: Blacknote Entertainment Group Limited. In 2017 all three used the same Curaçao footer with a blank company name. That is what the sites printed. Who ran them later is not established, and we have not checked whether they are still open.

Tangiers Casino, whose address we also found pointing nowhere in September 2026, used the same site template in 2017. A shared template does not prove a shared operator. All four brands have addresses on ACMA's list of blocked websites on 23 October 2026: ACMA has asked Australian internet providers to block them, and its warning that regulators cannot help you with an illegal service applies to them too.

Where to play instead

We do not name a replacement. Recommending another casino on a page about a site ACMA asked providers to block would undercut the page. If you are choosing a site, start with what “safe” can mean when no online casino is licensed in Australia, or browse our casino reviews.

Was it legal to play from Australia?

ACMA treats Casino Moons as an illegal service; its page for players warns about risks to you and does not mention penalties for players. That page lists “casino-style games (like poker, blackjack and roulette)” among “Illegal online services”. In its August 2022 release, ACMA found the services it named, Casino Moons first, to be “operating in breach of the” Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (IGA), and asked internet providers to block them.

For you, ACMA's warning is practical: if you use an illegal service, Australian regulators will not be able to help you if, for example, the provider withholds your winnings. For more on the law, see our guide to whether online casino gambling is legal in Australia.

FAQ

Sources and method

We looked at the addresses, the archive and the regulators' pages. We did not open an account, log in or deposit anywhere.

• Our checks of the casino's addresses: DNS lookups (1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8), web requests and a headless browser, from an Australian connection and from our server in Germany, 23 October 2026 (17:49–18:05 UTC). Earlier checks: from Australia on 19 September and 11 October 2026; from Australia and Germany on 22 October 2026. The brand's addresses on ACMA's list are casinomoons.com (with www) and casinomoonsvip.com. Domain registration records (RDAP), 23 October 2026.
• ACMA, “ACMA blocks illegal offshore gambling and affiliate marketing websites”, 18 August 2022. The live page refused our request on 23 October 2026; we read the Internet Archive copy.
• ACMA's list of blocked gambling websites, 1,810 addresses, read from Australia on 23 October 2026; earlier copies of the list in the Internet Archive.
• Internet Archive copies of the casino's own site, 2011–2023, dated in the text above; and of Rich Casino, 21Dukes, Thebes Casino and Tangiers Casino, 2016–2017.
• ACMA, “Protect yourself from illegal gambling operators”, last updated 6 March 2025, read 23 October 2026.
• ACMA, Interactive gambling complaint form, read 23 October 2026.
• Scamwatch, “Money recovery scams”, Internet Archive copy of 28 September 2026 (the live page refused our request on 23 October 2026).

We withdrew our review of Casino Moons in September 2026 and replaced it with this page; nothing from that old review is used here. We earn a commission when readers sign up through links on this site; it did not decide what is written here.

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