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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.

“NOWW”

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

1 registered enterprise with a name easily confused with yours.

  • NOWW same name
    Wholesale of electrical equipment, including installation materials · Ledegem · since 2020
Names that resemble it 12 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • N.O.W. similar
    Abbreviation of NOW ON THE WAVE · Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Schaarbeek · since 1999
  • NOW similar
    Abbreviation of NOW INTERNATIONAL · Advertising agencies · Brussel · since 2016
  • Now! similar
    Elsene · since 2019
  • NOW similar
    Name of an establishment of V2AM · Cafés and bars · Mouscron · since 2022
  • NOWA similar
    Development of residential building projects · Mechelen · since 1990
  • NOWU similar
    Pre-press and pre-media services · Antwerpen · since 2016
  • NOWO similar
    Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Overijse · since 2023
  • NOWI similar
    Business and other management consultancy · Putte · since 2023
  • Nowo similar
    Abbreviation of Nowo - Nomad Workshop · since 2023
  • Sole trader similar
    Artisanal bread and fresh pastry making · since 2010
  • NOWA similar
    Name of an establishment of NOWALOR · Nursing and midwifery · Hasselt · since 2025
  • NOWA similarin bankruptcy or liquidation
    Retail sale of other household articles · since 2020

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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