First, I don’t see what the big deal is about calling the programs “certified”. As far as I am concerned, they can call them whatever they like, anyone who’s been in the online casino business for a while knows very well what “CAP Certification” means and how it works. And if you are a newbie, keep in mind that you will get burnt quite a few times while your business is growning and signing up for a program just because it’s CAP Ceritified is a good way to statr the journey 
A good adivce for anyone new to the casino affiliate business is to take everything with a grain of salt and I mean everything! Stick to this and you’ll be better protected, although we have all seen good programs go bad, so 100% protection is impossible. Keep that in mind and plan ahead.
What I am really surprised about the CAP certification is that most of the programs are actually still paying, despite the fact that there are gazilion programs already “certified”. I cannot imagine if the ROI for being CAP Certified exists at all. God, I see 4-5 new programs being certified every week now (naturally without any kind of process, but check signing) and it really pisses me off that I have to scroll down through all the “Welcome” stickies to get to the actual discussions. Honestly, I don’t even bother reading the names of the new programs, the Certified list has been so watered-down, I don’t even know if brand new programs are seeing any signups from here at all.
With the recent CAP fiascos and the every-growing number of “certified programs” a good business decision would be to scale down the list. I can see programs justifying a big payment if they are one of 15 certified programs. You had a good thing with the “CAP Certified Seal”, I can see a program paying to display something like that on their home pages, but after the Cardspike, Grand Prive, HippoJo (or whatever it was), CAP-London, etc. I don’t think there are any affiliates left that actually regard it as anything of worth; this, of course, is making aff programs asking themselves what are they getting in return for their money. An already established program right now is getting zilch and if all you’ve got left is new programs, naturally more will turn out to be rogue.