What This Site Covers
Launch Ministry publishes analysis of offshore online casinos available to players in the United States. Our subject is the part of the category that is genuinely difficult: which licences give a player an actual complaints body rather than a web form, which deposit rails survive a US-issued card, and what a welcome offer is worth once you have read the clauses underneath the percentage.
We are not a general gambling portal. We do not cover state-licensed operators except in comparison, we do not run odds feeds or tipping content, and we do not cover sweepstakes or social casinos, which operate under a different legal structure entirely.
The Promise We Make, and the One We Do Not
Offshore casinos are not licensed by any US authority. No amount of enthusiasm on our part changes that, and any site describing an offshore operator as safe or trusted is making a claim it cannot support.
What we can tell a reader is which operators publish terms that hold up when you read them slowly, which have a track record long enough to mean something, which licensing bodies have a documented history of ruling against their own licensees, and which sites we would not touch. That is a narrower promise than the category norm. We think it is the only honest one.
Who Writes It
Our offshore gaming and payments coverage is written by Warren Ashby, who spent six years on the disputes side of a card processor before writing about gambling payments. That background is the reason this site pays unusual attention to merchant category codes, chargeback behaviour and pending-review windows, which are unglamorous and are where most reader problems actually originate.
Editorial Standards
- Every bonus figure is read from the operator's terms document and cross-checked against at least two independent sources, with the date we read it printed alongside.
- Where sources conflict and the cashier does not settle it, we label the figure corroborated rather than confirmed and name the brands affected.
- We do not claim to have tested something we did not test. Published processing times are labelled as the operator's figures.
- We do not publish third-party bonus codes.
- We do not use the words safe, trusted, guaranteed or instant as claims about an offshore operator.
- Ranking order is set before any commercial arrangement is considered. The full method is on how we rate.
How We Make Money
We earn a commission when a reader opens an account through a link on this site. Operators cannot buy placement, cannot buy a score, cannot have criticism removed, and do not see our pages before publication. Several brands we rank near the bottom pay the same commission rate as the ones we rank at the top, which is the simplest test of whether a ranking is for sale.
Contact and Corrections
Corrections matter more to us than tone. If a figure here is wrong, or an operator's terms have changed, or a payout complaint deserves attention, the fastest route is our contact page. We publish corrections rather than quietly editing figures.
Anyone worried about their own gambling will find the account-level controls, warning signs and helplines gathered on our responsible gambling page.