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Is your company name still free?

Compared with the KBO register · free

Type the name you want to use. You see at once whether an active company already has the same or a similar name, and whether it works in your sector.

“Coated”

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.

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Same or very similar names

4 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Coated same name
    Agents and managers of artists, athletes and other public figures · Duffel · since 2016
  • COATEX very similar
    Vervaardiging van overige geconfectioneerde artikelen van textiel, muv kleding · Poperinge · since 1988
  • COATEQ very similar
    Installation of industrial machinery and equipment · Mouscron · since 2021
  • COATEC very similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Gavere · since 1965
Names that resemble it 7 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • COATENG similar
    Kalmthout · since 1996
  • COATS GMBH similar
    Freiburg · since 1999
  • CoATI similar
    Abbreviation of Coalition for Amazon Town Inspiration · Namur · since 2017
  • CoatR similar
    Name of an establishment of CoatR België · Coating of metals · Turnhout · since 2017
  • COATAL similar
    Coating of metals · Roeselare · since 1993
  • COATHE similar
    Psychology services · Balen · since 2021
  • COATIT similar
    Computer programming · Knokke-Heist · since 2023

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. A name can be free in the register and still be protected as a trademark. Trademarks are searched in the 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.

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