Name check
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.
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
7 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Buying and selling of own real estate · Deinze · since 1987
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Development of residential building projects · Nieuwpoort · since 1982
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Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery · Koksijde · since 1991
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Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Kuurne · since 1998
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Joinery installation · Kortrijk · since 1999
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Wetteren · since 1979
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Brasschaat · since 1992
Names that resemble it 20 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Office administrative and support services · since 2015
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Landscape service activities · since 2024
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Dental practice · Brasschaat · since 2002
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Painting of buildings · since 2003
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Name of an establishment of DE COENE INTERIOR DECORATION · Joinery installation · Kortrijk · since 2016
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Plumbing work · Vilvoorde · since 2005
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Machining of metals · since 2020
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Wholesale of meat and meat products, excluding game and poultry · Zele · since 1981
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Retail sale of bicycles · Zemst · since 1989
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Non-specialised retail sale with food, beverages or tobacco predominating · Lebbeke · since 1993
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Name of an establishment of DIERICKX-TOOLS · Machining of metals · Rotselaar · since 1996
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Name of an establishment of Dierickx & Van Criekinge · Buying and selling of own real estate · Rotselaar · since 2017
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Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Aalst · since 2020
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Other business support services · Evergem · since 2024
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Sports and recreation education · since 2016
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Activities of building architects · since 1991
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Electrical installation work in industrial facilities · since 2022
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since 2004
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Event catering · since 2024
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Repair and maintenance of other personal and household goods · since 2025