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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.

“Designrequest.be”

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.

Same or very similar names

1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Wholesale of information and communication equipment · Merelbeke-Melle · since 2009
Names that resemble it 6 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • Sole trader similar
    Full-service restaurants
  • Sole trader similar
    Design of textile patterns, clothing, jewellery, furniture and decorative items · since 2017
  • Sole trader similar
    Graphic design and visual communication · since 2018
  • Design similar
    Name of an establishment of Cawa · Vocational training · Liège · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Graphic design and visual communication · since 2025
  • Design similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Brugge · since 1958

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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