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Name check

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.

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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

2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.

  • Rotate same name
    Specialised image, lighting and sound technical services · Antwerpen · since 2015
  • Rotate IT very similar
    Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Lokeren · since 2010
Names that resemble it 14 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
  • ROTE similar
    since 1992
  • Photography, excluding press photography · since 2018
  • ROTA vzw similar
    Brussel · since 2021
  • ROTA similar
    Joinery installation · Genk · since 2010
  • Rotax similar
    On-demand passenger transport by chauffeured vehicle · Vosselaar · since 2009
  • Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors · since 2026
  • Rox Estate similar
    Development of residential building projects · Knokke-Heist · since 2022
  • Rotaco similar
    Mijnsheerenland · since 1975
  • Rotary similar
    Oostende · since 1982
  • ROTANA similar
    Cafés and bars · Lokeren · since 2016
  • Cafés and bars · since 2016
  • ROTANA similar
    Oostende · since 2023
  • ROTAKT similar
    Performing arts by independent artists · Antwerpen · since 2004
  • TATE similar
    Name of an establishment of The Answer To Everything · Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Lede · since 2016

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