Star111 is a cricket-betting and casino brand aimed at Indian players. It ran on two addresses, star111.live and star111.com, and gave out its Android app as an APK file. We checked both addresses on 11 November 2026 and neither of them opened. On top of that, offering real-money online games to people in India has been a criminal offence since 1 May 2026. This guide explains what Star111 used to offer, how to tell its look-alikes apart, and what you can do if money is still sitting in an old account.
Is Star111 working right now?
Not at the addresses people search for. This is what our check on 11 November 2026 showed:
star111.comandstar111.liveare both still registered and both use Cloudflare for DNS. Neither bare domain points to a server any more.- The
wwwversions of both names point to one hosting environment on Amazon’s cloud region in Mumbai. That environment has been deleted, so the lookup ends with “domain does not exist”. - Both names led to the same place, so they were one platform with two addresses, not two separate brands.
A deleted server usually means the operator shut the platform down or moved it somewhere else. Indian reporting on the government’s blocking drive notes that offshore betting sites often reappear on look-alike domains within hours, and copycats grab a dead brand’s name just as fast. We have found no notice from Star111 about a new address, so we treat every “new Star111 link” as unverified.
What the Star111 platform offered
Older guides described Star111 as a sportsbook and casino rolled into one, priced in rupees. That includes the WordPress pages that used to sit on this domain. Here is what they listed. These are the platform’s own claims; we could not test any of them:
| Section | What was advertised |
|---|---|
| Sports | Cricket first (IPL and internationals), then football, kabaddi, tennis and eSports, before and during matches, with cash-out |
| Casino | “1,000+” slots from “100+” studios, live dealer tables, Aviator-style crash games |
| Indian card games | Teen Patti, Andar Bahar and Jhandi Munda, as software and as live tables |
| Payments | UPI, Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay, NetBanking, Visa and Mastercard, plus Bitcoin and USDT |
| Access | Browser site, Android APK, and an iPhone home-screen shortcut |
The same pages talked about a “recognised gaming licence” and a London office, yet never named a regulator or gave a licence number, so there was nothing to look up. We found no Indian licence for Star111 either, and since May 2026 there is no licence an online betting site could hold in India at all.
Is Star111 legal in India?
No. In August 2025 Parliament passed a national law whose official name runs: Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act (we shorten it to the Online Gaming Act). It took effect on 1 May 2026. Any online game played for a stake counts as an “online money game”, whether it turns on skill or on luck. The law bans three things (PRS Legislative Research summary):
- Running such games: up to three years in prison, a fine of up to ₹1 crore, or both.
- Advertising them: up to two years, a fine of up to ₹50 lakh, or both.
- Processing payments for them, which takes in banks and payment apps: up to three years, up to ₹1 crore, or both.
Players are not the target. In Parliament the IT minister called users victims, not offenders, and the penalties fall on operators, promoters and whoever moves the money. That cuts both ways, though. You are unlikely to be prosecuted for having had an account, but no Indian regulator will help you get a balance back from an unlicensed betting site. Some states had already banned online betting under their own gambling laws, and those bans still apply.
Star111 login, app and live pages
Each big search topic has its own page here:
- Star111 login: how sign-in worked, why it fails now, and what to do about a forgotten password.
- Star111 app and APK: why we don’t link a download, and how to check an APK that is already on your phone.
- star111.live: the address itself, in-play cricket, and how to vet a “new link”.
- Star111 betting: the cricket markets it advertised and where online betting stands legally.
- Registration and promo codes: how accounts were opened, and the bonus claims that don’t match.
Look-alike sites using the Star111 name
People type the brand a dozen ways: star 111, start 111, satr111, star-111, star111.com. Every spelling is a chance for someone else to grab the traffic. Since the original addresses went quiet, a site at star111.pro has been calling itself the “Star 111 Official Club”, with a points-based starter pack and its own “v5.2” Android APK. We found nothing that ties it to the platform that ran on star111.live. It could be a new business borrowing the name, or it could be a clone.
Before you type a password or a UPI PIN on any Star111-branded page, ask four questions. Does the page name a company, a regulator and a licence number you can look up? If not, don’t deposit. Did the link arrive as a WhatsApp or Telegram forward? Dead betting brands are a favourite hook for people selling “IDs”. Are you asked to pay a personal UPI ID, or scan a QR code with somebody’s name on it? Then the money goes to a person, not a business. And does a download start before you have even seen the site? Treat that file as malware until you know otherwise.
Money still in a Star111 account
If you had a balance when the site went dark, be realistic. An offshore, unlicensed operator owes you nothing that an Indian court or regulator will enforce. What you can still do:
- Keep the evidence: screenshots of the balance, UPI transaction IDs, bank statements, chats with “support”.
- If someone offers to “unlock” or “recover” your Star111 balance for a fee, that is a second scam. Don’t pay.
- Report fraud on the national cyber-crime helpline 1930 or at cybercrime.gov.in. If you were recently tricked into a UPI payment, report it the same day; banks can sometimes hold funds that are reported quickly.
- Change any password you also used on Star111, and take back the permissions the app had on your phone.
Payments and bonus figures you may have seen
According to the old guides, Star111 took deposits by UPI, wallets, cards and crypto. Under the new law, Indian banks and payment apps may not process payments for online money games. So when a UPI transfer to a betting site fails or bounces back, the system is doing what the law now requires. It isn’t a glitch to work around.
Star111’s welcome offer was never pinned down. The old text on this domain promised a first-deposit match “up to ₹1,00,000”. Artwork on the same site showed a 111% first-deposit bonus, 50 free spins and a promo code. One site advertising two different offers is a warning sign in its own right. We could not confirm either, and with the platform offline neither can be claimed.
If you live outside India and gambling is legal where you are, the partner offer we link is here: See today’s offer. It usually belongs to another operator, not Star111, and that operator’s own bonus conditions apply.