Is your company name still 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.
“Shortec”
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
2 registered enterprises with a name easily confused with yours.
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Business and other management consultancy · Overijse · since 2019
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Tielt-Winge · since 2026
Names that resemble it 11 registered names with shared words or a related spelling.
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General electrical installation work · Gent · since 2009
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Service activities incidental to land transportation · Kalmthout · since 2022
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Retail sale of newspapers and periodicals · since 1971
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Other software publishing · Rebecq · since 2022
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Advertising agencies · since 2024
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Computer programming · Hasselt · since 2022
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Business and other management consultancy · Brussel · since 2008
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Photography, excluding press photography · since 2005
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Renting and operating of own or leased residential real estate, excluding social housing · Retie · since 1976
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Charleroi · since 1997
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Computer consultancy and computer facilities management · Balen · since 2010
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.