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.
“HOTO”
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
1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.
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Business and other management consultancy · Zonhoven · since 2004
Names that resemble it 17 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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Abbreviation of Horeca Ondernemers Turnhout · Promotion and organisation of arts and performing arts events · Turnhout · since 2019
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Name of an establishment of Table d’Ho – Shop · Limited-service restaurants, excluding mobile food services · Antwerpen · since 2022
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Abbreviation of House of Talent · since 2005
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Abbreviation of Hak Op De Tak · Landscape service activities · Lier · since 2026
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Abbreviation of Home of the Braves · Operation of sports facilities · Brasschaat · since 1974
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Activities of holding companies · Hasselt · since 2019
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Other social work without accommodation · since 2019
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Event catering · Turnhout · since 2022
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Abbreviation of Headquarters Of The Mouvement · Vorst · since 2012
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Abbreviation of HUIZEN OM TE AARDEN · General construction of residential buildings · Gent · since 2004
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Abbreviation of Hawks on the Horizon · Computer programming · Lede · since 2023
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LUXEMBOURG · since 2007
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Other business support services · since 2022
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Business and other management consultancy · Mechelen · since 2018
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Telecommunications resale and intermediation services · since 2026
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Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified · since 1997
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Full-service restaurants · Antwerpen · since 2010