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Name check

Compared with the KBO register · free

Is your company name already in the register? Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company in the KBO register already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector. Trademarks and domain names are checked separately.

“BeTrue”

An active company already has this name

The name is not unique in the register. In another sector the risk of confusion is smaller, but customers and search engines do not always make that distinction.

Also pick your activity to see whether a similar name exists in your own sector.

What this check does and does not say

  • We compare against every name in the KBO register today: the name, the abbreviation and the trade names of enterprises and their establishments. Capitals, accents, punctuation and legal forms (bv, nv, srl, ...) do not count.
  • This is not a trademark search and not legal advice on using the name. A name that is not in the register can still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the official registers of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP, boip.int) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, euipo.europa.eu).
  • A domain name or a social media handle is also separate from the register.

Same or very similar names

2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • BeTrue same name
    Activities of holding companies · Hasselt · since 2021
  • Vervaardiging van zeep en wasmiddelen · since 2020
Names that resemble it 7 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • BETRUST similar
    Market research and public opinion polling · Aartselaar · since 2002
  • BETRO similar
    Beheer en instandhouding van natuurreservaten · Londerzeel · since 2018
  • Betrac similar
    Chaton · since 1979
  • BETRIX similar
    Sint-Pieters-Woluwe · since 1993
  • BETREX similar
    Abbreviation of BELGIUM TRANSPORT EXPRESS · Service activities incidental to land transportation · Denderleeuw · since 2017
  • Beauty care and other beauty treatments · since 2018
  • BETRIC similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Beveren · since 1996

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