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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.

“ISBL”

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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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.

  • ISBL same name
    Activities of lawyers · Antwerpen · since 2023
Names that resemble it 22 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • I.S.B. similar
    Abbreviation of Info Service Belgium · Computer programming · Gent · since 1987
  • I.S.B. similar
    Name of an establishment of BELGIUM INCOSYS · General electrical installation work · Sint-Gillis (bij-Brussel) · since 1990
  • I.S.B. similar
    Abbreviation of Info - Sourds de Bruxelles · Other social work without accommodation · Vorst · since 1996
  • I.S.B. similar
    Name of an establishment of De Stijl · Renting and operating of own or leased non-residential real estate, excluding land · Heusden-Zolder · since 1998
  • I.S.B. similar
    Joinery installation · Oostende · since 2001
  • ISB similar
    Groothandel in zuivelproducten en eieren · Leopoldsburg · since 2003
  • ISB s.c.s. similar
    Abbreviation of Inter Services Belgium s.c.s. · since 2018
  • ISB similar
    Abbreviation of International Swimming Belgium · Sports and recreation education · Ukkel · since 2021
  • ISB similar
    Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation · Ranst · since 2008
  • I.S.B similar
    General construction of residential buildings · Bree · since 2024
  • I.S.B.W. similar
    Abbreviation of Intercommunale Sociale du Brabant wallon · Day nurseries and crèches · Rixensart · since 1968
  • I.S.B.A. similar
    Abbreviation of INSTITUT SAINTE-BEGGE A ANDENNE · Subsidised independent mainstream primary education · Andenne · since 1987
  • I.S.B.E. similar
    since 1990
  • I.S.B.C. similar
    Abbreviation of INTERNATIONAL SERVICE AND BUILDING CORPORATION · Real estate agency activities · Aywaille · since 1995
  • ISBA similar
    Retail sale of prescription glasses, lenses and sunglasses · Brussel · since 2000
  • ISBF similar
    Abbreviation of Ice Skating Brussls Friends · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe · since 2016
  • Retail sale of household textiles and bedding · since 1988
  • ISBS similar
    Agents in non-specialised wholesale trade · Gent · since 2018
  • Activities of interior architects · since 2022
  • ISBC BV similar
    Echt · since 2021
  • I.S.B BVBA similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Name of an establishment of JK BUILDING · Personenvervoer door de lucht · Ronse · since 1991
  • I.S.B similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Abbreviation of IDEAL.SERVICES.BELGIUM · General cleaning of buildings · Etterbeek · since 2015

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