| Europe — 24 jurisdictions |
| Albania | National Business Center (QKB) | The QKB site offers a free trade-register search by company name or NIPT/NUIS tax number, in Albanian and English. |
| Andorra | Registre de Societats (Ministry of Justice) | Company registration runs through notaries; no public online company search was found at the source. |
| Belarus | Unified State Register (USR) | Free search in English on the state register of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs. |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Business Registers (APIF / APRS / courts) | There is no single national register: Federation entities via APIF, Republika Srpska via aprs.net, and court/Brcer registers via bizreg.pravosudje.ba. |
| Moldova | State Register of Legal Entities (Public Services Agency) | The register moved to the Public Services Agency; a free online check of a company's IDNO code runs via e-services.md (which may be geo-restricted). |
| Monaco | Trade and Industry Register (RCI) | The government business portal behind the RCI trade and industry register, in French. The site blocks automated visitors; it is a bot wall, not a dead link. |
| Montenegro | Central Register of Commercial Entities (CRPS) | Free search by tax number or name; extracts are charged. Interface in Montenegrin and English. |
| North Macedonia | Central Registry (CRM) | The Central Registry's English site offers free search on current status, history and bankruptcy of entities. |
| Russia | Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL, FNS) | The tax service publishes EGRUL extracts free; search in Russian by INN/OGRN or name. Sanctions make counterparty checks here more, not less, urgent. |
| San Marino | Camera di Commercio (Office of the Company Register) | Company data through the Chamber of Commerce of San Marino; no open online register at the source. |
| Serbia | Serbian Business Registers Agency (APR) | Unified register (companies, liens, financial statements); free basic search, extracts paid. Serbian and English. |
| Switzerland | Zefix (Federal Commercial Register) | Free search of all cantonal registers at once; the extract itself is bought from the cantonal office. The UID identification number is separately verifiable in the federal UID register (uid.admin.ch, English search). |
| Turkiye | MERSIS (Ministry of Trade) | MERSIS is the central trade-registry system of the Ministry of Trade; search in Turkish by MERSIS or tax number. Announcements in the Trade Registry Gazette. (The old tobb.org.tr address serves only an Apache test page; checked 19-09-2026.) |
| Ukraine | Unified State Register of Legal Entities (Ministry of Justice) | Free official register in Ukrainian; open-data extracts exist. Wartime makes verification of counterparties here essential. |
| Kosovo | Kosovo Business Registration Agency (ARBK) | The ARBK English page offers a free business-register search by name or registration number. |
| Vatican City | (no commercial register) | No commercial company register; bodies corporate of the Holy See are established by law rather than registered like companies. |
| Isle of Man | Companies Registry (Isle of Man Government) | The companies registry sits under the Isle of Man government; online company search runs via services.gov.im. Both sites reject automated visitors outright, so if the link stalls, retry in a normal browser. |
| Jersey | Jersey Financial Services Commission | The JFSC maintains the Jersey companies registry; the registry site blocks automated visitors but is the official source. |
| Guernsey | Guernsey Registry | The official searchable registry of companies, charities and NPOs in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. |
| Gibraltar | Companies House Gibraltar | The e-Registry portal for search and filing of Gibraltar companies. |
| Faroe Islands | Skrapseting Forya (company register) | The Faroese registration office keeps the local company and trade registers, separate from the Danish CVR. |
| Greenland | Danish CVR (joint register) | Greenland has no separate register: Greenlandic companies are registered in the joint Danish CVR of the Danish Business Authority. |
| Svalbard and Jan Mayen | Norwegian Enhetsregisteret | Enterprises on Svalbard register in the Norwegian entity register like any Norwegian business. |
| Aland Islands | Finnish Trade Register (PRH/YTJ) | Aland companies sit in the Finnish trade register; the Aland-specific restrictions (language, real estate) are separate. |
| Africa — 57 jurisdictions |
| Algeria | CNRC commercial register (Sidjilcom) | Sidjilcom is the CNRC's official online register portal for trade-register extracts, in Arabic and French. |
| Angola | One-Stop Shop for Company Formation (GUE) | The GUE integrates commercial registry, notary and tax, and is the official company formation service; Portuguese. |
| Benin | APIEx one-stop shop (MonEntreprise) | The official e-formalities portal of APIEx; the agency site apiex.bj is the institutional fallback. |
| Botswana | CIPA (Companies and Intellectual Property Authority) | CIPA registers companies and business names; online search exists through the registry portal. |
| Burkina Faso | Ministry of Industry and Commerce (CEFORE/RCCM) | CEFORE no longer has its own website; the ministry site and cci.bf carry CEFORE and RCCM information, French. |
| Burundi | Burundi company one-stop shop (easybusiness) | The official Guichet Unique for company creation; the investment agency investburundi.bi is the informational fallback. |
| Cabo Verde | Commercial Registry (Ministry of Justice) | The justice portal hosts the Registo Comercial services and certificate requests, Portuguese. |
| Cameroon | One-stop shop (guichet unique) | The official guichet unique portal for company formalities; the e-service application runs at webguce.guichetunique.cm. |
| Central African Republic | GUFE-RCA one-stop shop | The state one-stop shop covering RCCM/greffe, tax and labour formalities, French. |
| Chad | ANIE Chad (guichet unique) | ANIE runs the one-stop desk for company creation and investment approval, French. |
| Comoros | (no open register) | No accessible online register at the source. Commercial law follows the OHADA treaty, so the RCCM extract from the court registry (via the Chamber of Commerce or a notary) is the document that counts. |
| Congo (Republic) | ACPCE (national business register) | ACPCE holds the national business register for formalities; the successor agency API-Congo sits at apicongo.cg. |
| Congo (DR) | Guichet Unique de Creation d'Entreprises (GUCE) | The official one-stop shop domain; its infrastructure has outages, and there is no public company search, so verify via an RCCM extract on request. |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CEPICI one-stop shop | The investment promotion centre's one-stop shop holding company registry data (RCCM), French. |
| Djibouti | ODPIC (business creation) | The business-creation one-stop reference of the investment promotion agency, French/Arabic. |
| Egypt | Commercial Register (GAFI / Ministry of Trade) | Companies register at the commercial registry; investment companies via GAFI. Arabic interface with English parts. |
| Equatorial Guinea | Ventanilla Unica (Ministry of Finance) | The one-stop covering company and Registro Mercantil formalities; Equatoguinean ministries use .com domains, Spanish/French. |
| Eritrea | (no open register) | No public online company register at the source; rely on licensed extracts and bank-channel verification. |
| Eswatini | Companies Registry (government portal) | The Companies Registry has no dedicated website; the general government portal is the entry point and may be slow or unreachable from Europe. |
| Ethiopia | Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration | The ministry site is the official entry point; no public online company search exists at the source. |
| Gabon | ANPI Gabon (GNI one-stop) | The GNI portal is the official platform for company formalisation and banking formalities, French. |
| Gambia | Registrar of Companies (Ministry of Justice) | Companies register with the Registrar of Companies; no open online search at the source. |
| Ghana | Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) | The ORC under Companies Act 992 is the sole custodian of company registrations, also reachable via ghana.gov.gh. |
| Guinea | APIP-Guinee (Guichet Unique) | The investment promotion agency operates the one-stop shop for business creation (RCCM). |
| Guinea-Bissau | (no open register) | No accessible online register at the source. Commercial law follows the OHADA treaty, so the RCCM extract from the commercial court is the document that counts. |
| Kenya | Business Registration Service (BRS) | Companies registry under the Attorney General's office; official searches are paid, through eCitizen. |
| Lesotho | Registrar General (government portal) | No dedicated online registry exists at the source; company registrations sit with the Registrar General under the law ministry; verification is by request through the government portal. |
| Liberia | Liberia Business Registry (LBR) | The registry's domain resolves but refuses connections from Europe; likely geo-restricted rather than dead. |
| Libya | (no open register) | No accessible online company register; commercial registry records sit with the Ministry of Economy. |
| Madagascar | EDBM (guichet unique) | The one-stop business bureau (EDBM) holds company statutes and registry extracts; French. |
| Malawi | Department of the Registrar General | The department's site resolves but persistently refuses connections from abroad; treat it as geo-restricted, not dead. |
| Mali | API-Mali guichet unique | The guichet-unique site has maintenance outages; demarchesadministratives.gouv.ml is the working official procedures alternative. |
| Mauritania | APIM one-stop shop | APIM operates the Nouakchott one-stop shop, with formalities detail at procedures.gov.mr, French/Arabic. |
| Mauritius | Companies and Business Registration (ROC) | The Registrar of Companies offers online company searches; an important offshore centre, so screen carefully. |
| Morocco | OMPIC (registre de commerce) | OMPIC holds the trade register; the site serves plain HTTP from Europe, and official paid registry extracts run via directinfo.ma, French. |
| Mozambique | Conservatoria dos Registos (commercial registries) | Commercial registry entries sit with the conservatories; no unified open online register. |
| Namibia | BIPA (Business and Intellectual Property Authority) | BIPA holds the close corporations and companies registers; paid searches through the portal. |
| Niger | Maison de l'Entreprise du Niger | The national one-stop for company creation, modification and closure, French. |
| Nigeria | Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) | The CAC public search shows company status and RC number free; full details need an account. |
| Rwanda | Office of the Registrar General (RDB) | The ORG portal hosts business registration and the public company search, in English. |
| Sao Tome and Principe | (no open register) | Company registration at the commercial registry in Sao Tome; no online register at the source. |
| Senegal | APIX Senegal | APIX (including the guichet unique) is now officially at investinsenegal.sn; the old apix.sn is unreachable, French. |
| Seychelles | Seychelles Business Register | The official register refuses connections from outside the region (403 to European visitors). IBCs are also searchable through the FSA's regulated-entities search at fsaseychelles.sc, which does open from Europe. |
| Sierra Leone | (no reachable register) | The Corporate Affairs Commission's domain is currently broken at DNS level; SLIEPA (sliepa.gov.sl) publishes the CAC contact details as the fallback route. |
| Somalia | (no open register) | No functioning central public company register; verify through banks, chambers and sanctions lists. |
| South Africa | CIPC (Companies and Intellectual Property Commission) | Companies register with CIPC; free company search on the CIPC portal by registration number or name. |
| South Sudan | Ministry of Justice (Business Registry) | Company registration sits with the Ministry of Justice business registry; no open online search. |
| Sudan | (no open register) | Commercial registry records sit with the trade registry courts; no online register. Sanctions screening essential. |
| Tanzania | BRELA Online Registration System (ORS) | BRELA's ORS covers companies, business names and NGOs; free public search by name or number. The system often refuses connections from Europe; from the region it opens. |
| Togo | Service-public.gouv.tg (business formalities) | The official procedures portal covers company creation (CFCE); SEGUCE (segucetogo.tg) handles foreign-trade formalities. French. |
| Tunisia | RNE (Registre National des Entreprises) | The national enterprises register offers a public search by matricule or name, in Arabic and French. |
| Uganda | URSB (Uganda Registration Services Bureau) | The URSB business registration system allows paid official searches of the companies register. |
| Zambia | PACRA (Patents and Companies Registration Agency) | PACRA runs the companies register; paid searches through the e-services portal. |
| Zimbabwe | Companies and Intellectual Property Office (CIPZ) | The register's domain is reachable in principle but often unreachable from Europe; the office itself remains the official source. |
| Reunion | French RNE (INPI) | French overseas region: companies are registered in the French national register (RNE). |
| Mayotte | French RNE (INPI) | French overseas region: companies are registered in the French national register (RNE). |
| Western Sahara | (no open register) | No functioning public company register; trade here is sanctions- and compliance-relevant by definition. |
| Americas — 60 jurisdictions |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Companies Registry (ABIPCO) | ABIPCO (formerly ABIRB) runs the companies and business-names registry; a limited free online search exists, certified extracts are paid. |
| Argentina | General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) | The IGJ covers the City of Buenos Aires only; companies in the provinces sit in separate provincial registries. The CUIT tax number identifies taxpayers via AFIP. |
| Bahamas | Registrar General's Department | Companies register with the Registrar General; IBC searches are largely paid. Classic offshore jurisdiction. |
| Barbados | CAIPO (Corporate Affairs and IP Office) | CAIPO holds the companies and business names registers. |
| Belize | Online Business Registry System (OBRS) | The OBRS searches Belize-registered business entities including CARICOM foreign companies. |
| Bolivia | SEPREC (Servicio Plurinacional de Registro de Comercio) | SEPREC is the national trade register; search by NIT or trade name, Spanish. |
| Brazil | CNPJ (Receita Federal) + state Juntas Comerciais | Every company has a CNPJ; the free federal consultation shows registration status and situa cadastral. Board-of-trade (Junta) records are state-level. |
| Canada | Corporations Canada + provincial registries | Federal corporations searchable free on Corporations Canada; provinces (Ontario, Quebec...) keep their own. No single national register. |
| Chile | Registro de Comercio + Diario Oficial | No unified company register; incorporations publish in the Diario Oficial, and the RUT number identifies taxpayers via SII. |
| Colombia | RUES (Registro Unico Empresarial, Confecamaras) | Free search by NIT or name across the chambers of commerce; Spanish. |
| Costa Rica | Registro Nacional - Seccion Personas Juridicas | The national registry's legal-persons section covers companies; search by cedula juridica, Spanish. |
| Cuba | (no open register) | No public online commercial register; foreign trade entities are state-controlled and listed via the Chamber of Commerce. |
| Dominica | Companies and Intellectual Property Office | The companies registry sits under the High Court registry; IBCs common, searches limited. |
| Dominican Republic | Chambers of Commerce (Registro Mercantil) | Trade registry entries sit with the local chambers of commerce; RNC tax number searchable at the DGII. |
| Ecuador | Superintendence of Companies (search portal) | The official company-information portal of the Superintendencia de Companias; search by name or RUC, Spanish. Only companies under its supervision appear. |
| El Salvador | CNR - Registro de Comercio | The National Registry Centre keeps the commerce register; search by NIT or name, Spanish. |
| Grenada | Corporate Affairs and IP Office (CAIPO) | Companies registry under the corporate affairs office; no open online search at the source. |
| Guatemala | Registro Mercantil (Guatemala) | The commercial registry is public and searchable by name or NIT, Spanish. The principal server is the direct entry point. |
| Guyana | Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority (DCRA) | Official DCRA site with registration forms and fees; no open online search, company searches are requested at the Georgetown office. |
| Haiti | (no open register) | Commercial registry entries sit with the courts; no online register at the source. |
| Honduras | Mercantile Registry (chambers of commerce) | The mercantile registry is run per department by chambers of commerce; this is Corts/San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa companies sit at ccit.hn. |
| Jamaica | Companies Office of Jamaica | The Companies Office keeps the companies register; name searches available on its portal. |
| Mexico | SIEM + Registro Publico de la Comercio | No single free official register; SIEM lists registered businesses, RFC tax status via SAT, and commercial-registry extracts are local. Verify suppliers here through multiple sources. |
| Nicaragua | Public Registry (online consultation) | Official online consultation of mercantile societies (Circular 007-2021); the site may be unreachable from Europe, the register itself is not dead. |
| Panama | Public Registry (online consultas) | PanamaDigital aggregates the Registro Publico's online consulta services. The direct consulta system may be geo-blocked from Europe; the register itself is reachable. |
| Paraguay | Directorate General of Public Registries (DNRP) | The DNRP sits under the judiciary; document-entry search via run.gov.py, company extracts on request. |
| Peru | SUNARP | SUNARP is the national public registries office; free index search, paid certificates, RUC tax status via SUNAT. |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) | The FSRC is the registrar of companies for St. Kitts; Nevis companies and LLCs sit with nevisfsrc.com. Public search stays limited. |
| Saint Lucia | Companies and Intellectual Property Registry | Registry under the attorney general; IBC searches limited. |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | SVG Financial Services Authority | The FSA lists registered agents and licensed entities but has no free full IBC database, so verification runs through agents. |
| Suriname | Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKF) | The KKF keeps the statutory Handelsregister but has no open online search; registry extracts are ordered from the Paramaribo office. |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Registrar General's Department (Companies) | Companies register with the Registrar General; searchable index online. |
| United States | State registries + SEC EDGAR | No federal company register: companies form under state law (Delaware, Wyoming...), so check the state of incorporation. SEC EDGAR covers only public filers, free. |
| Uruguay | General Registry Directorate (DGR) | Official portal for remote certified extracts from the Registro Nacional de Comercio; access is request/login based, not open browsing. |
| Venezuela | Registro Mercantil (SAREN courts) | Commercial registries sit with notaries and courts under SAREN; RIF tax number via SENIAT. Verify carefully before any advance payment. |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | Financial Services Commission | The companies registry falls under the FSC; a small register where agent verification is the norm. |
| Cayman Islands | General Registry (online register) | The online register (BICWFS) needs a free account before you can search; the monetary authority's entity search (cima.ky) covers regulated entities free. A core offshore centre: screen ownership, not just existence. |
| British Virgin Islands | BVI FSC, Registry of Corporate Affairs | The registry operates under the FSC. BVI companies are the classic shell vehicle; certificate verification runs through registered agents. |
| Bermuda | Registrar of Companies | The registrar's department page; online filings and search run through the registrar's portal. |
| Aruba | Aruba Chamber of Commerce (KvK) | The chamber keeps the commercial register; a free register search runs via kvk.aw. |
| Curacao | Curacao Chamber of Commerce and Industry | The chamber holds the commercial register; the registry search runs through its portal. |
| Sint Maarten | St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce | The chamber keeps the commercial register of Sint Maarten. |
| Caribbean Netherlands | KVK Handelsregister | The Dutch KVK operates the business register for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba; search works from the ordinary KVK site. |
| Anguilla | Commercial Registry Electronic System (CRES) | CRES replaced the old ACORN system; offshore companies dominate the register. |
| Montserrat | Financial Services Commission | Company registration and search run through the FSC's CIPO portal. |
| Falkland Islands | FIG Registry Services | The companies registry is part of the Attorney General's registry services; no standalone public search database. |
| Saint Helena | St Helena Government Registry | The registry page on the government portal; a small register where personal verification is often faster. |
| Puerto Rico | Legal Entity Registry (Departamento de Estado) | US territory with its own registry: the Department of State keeps the legal-entity register, searchable free through its rcp.estado.pr.gov portal, in Spanish. |
| Guam | (US territory) | US territory; corporations register locally and the United States entry applies. |
| US Virgin Islands | Corporations (Office of the Lt. Governor) | US territory: corporations and trade names register with the lt. governor's corporations division; searches run through its office. |
| Northern Mariana Islands | (US territory) | US territory; corporations register locally and the United States entry applies. |
| American Samoa | (US territory) | US territory; corporations register locally and the United States entry applies. |
| Guadeloupe | French RNE (INPI) | French overseas region: companies are registered in the French national register (RNE). |
| Martinique | French RNE (INPI) | French overseas region: companies are registered in the French national register (RNE). |
| French Guiana | French RNE (INPI) | French overseas region: companies are registered in the French national register (RNE). |
| Saint Barthelemy | French RNE (INPI) | French overseas collectivity: companies are registered in the French national register (RNE). |
| Saint Martin | French RNE (INPI) | French side of the island: companies are registered in the French national register (RNE). |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | French RNE (INPI) | French overseas collectivity: companies are registered in the French national register (RNE). |
| Bouvet Island | (no register) | Uninhabited Norwegian territory; no company register. |
| South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | (no register) | No permanent population and no company register. |
| Asia — 50 jurisdictions |
| Afghanistan | Afghanistan Central Business Registry (MoCI) | The registry is integrated into the Ministry of Industry and Commerce site; license and registration verification runs via moci.gov.af, without a full free-text company search. |
| Armenia | Register of Legal Entities (Ministry of Justice) | Free online search of legal entities by name or registration number. |
| Azerbaijan | State Register of Legal Entities (Ministry of Taxes) | Legal entities register with the tax ministry; Azerbaijani interface. |
| Bahrain | Sijilat (Commercial Registration Portal) | Sijilat is the unified commercial registration portal; search by CR number, Arabic and English. |
| Bangladesh | RJSC (Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms) | The RJSC holds company and firm registrations; name search available on the site. |
| Bhutan | Companies Registry Office (MOICE) | No public online company database; registry confirmations must be requested from the Registrar of Companies under the ministry. |
| Brunei | Registry of Companies and Business Names (ROCBN) | Company and business-name registry under the finance ministry; limited online search. |
| Cambodia | Business Registration (Ministry of Commerce) | The commerce ministry's registry allows search of local companies; English parts available. |
| China | National Enterprise Credit Information (gsxt) | The official publicity system for enterprise registration; Chinese only and bot-protected from abroad. Business licence number = unified social credit code. |
| Georgia | Public Registry (NAPR) | Free search of the entrepreneurial register in English; extracts paid. |
| India | Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) | Every registered Indian company and LLP sits in the MCA register; the master-data lookup per CIN/LLPIN is free with a login, certified copies cost a small fee. The site blocks automated visitors; in a normal browser it opens. |
| Indonesia | OSS - Online Single Submission | The main OSS portal (no www): licensing and business data per NIB number; the old legalentity/data subdomains are gone. |
| Iran | Companies Registration Office | The official register of companies and institutions, Persian only. Sanctions screening before any contact. |
| Iraq | Registrar of Companies - Tasjeel (Ministry of Trade) | Tasjeel is the official federal registrar portal; companies registered in the Kurdistan region sit separately at business.digital.gov.krd. |
| Israel | Israeli Corporations Authority (Companies Registrar) | The registrar's search runs by company name (Hebrew or English) or number; basic company data is free, a full extract is paid. |
| Japan | Corporate Number System (National Tax Agency) | Every incorporated entity has a 13-digit corporate number; free search in English. Registered deeds sit with the Legal Affairs Bureau. |
| Jordan | Companies Control Department | The CCD keeps the companies register with an English site; certified extracts paid. |
| Kazakhstan | National Register of Business IDs (egov) | Legal-entity data via the e-government portal; BIN is the business identifier. Russian and Kazakh interfaces. |
| Kuwait | Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Kuwait) | Commercial registration e-services in English; searches largely require the civil-ID linked portal, and the Arabic interface is fuller. |
| Kyrgyzstan | Unified State Register (Ministry of Justice) | Free online search of registered legal entities, Russian and Kyrgyz. The site blocks foreign visitors outright (Cloudflare country block); from inside Kyrgyzstan it opens normally. |
| Laos | Enterprise Registration and Management (MoIC) | The MoIC department portal has no public free-text company search, so verifying a Lao counterparty requires a request to the ministry. |
| Lebanon | Commercial Register (Ministry of Justice) | Commercial registry entries at the courts; no unified online register. Verify via the Beirut Bar or banks. |
| Malaysia | SSM (Companies Commission of Malaysia) | SSM's e-info search gives company profile and directors for a small fee; entity search by name or registration number. Labuan offshore entities register separately with the Labuan FSA (lfsa.gov.my). |
| Maldives | Business Centre Corporation (BCC) | Business registration and searches run through the BCC's BRS system, a state-owned corporation under the economic ministry. |
| Mongolia | Legal Entity State Registry | The state registration office keeps the legal-entity register; Mongolian interface. |
| Myanmar | DICA MyCompaniesOnline | The post-2020 companies register under DICA; free search by company name or number in English. |
| Nepal | Office of the Company Registrar (OCR) | The OCR keeps the companies register with an online search by name or registration number. |
| North Korea | (no register) | No public company register; any trade touchpoint is sanctions-relevant. Screen every party against the lists first. |
| Oman | Oman Business Portal (ieasy, MoCIIP) | Commercial registration (CR) verification runs through the ieasy portal behind this domain. |
| Pakistan | SECP eServices | The SECP company search gives free basic status per registration number; NTN tax status via FBR. |
| Palestine | Companies Registry (Ministry of National Economy) | Company registration under the economy ministry; limited online verification. |
| Philippines | SEC Philippines | The SEC site blocks automated visitors (403) but is live; record checks run via SEC eSPARC (esparc.sec.gov.ph) or the SEC Check app. |
| Qatar | Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Qatar) | Commercial records and permits sit with the ministry portal by CR number, Arabic and English; the e-services run behind the portal login. |
| Saudi Arabia | Ministry of Commerce (Saudi Arabia) | The ministry verifies commercial registrations free; the unified 700 number identifies the entity. The data portal (data.mc.gov.sa) may refuse connections from outside the region. |
| Singapore | ACRA BizFile+ | The registry of companies and LLPs; basic entity info free (captcha), profiles via paid purchase. UEN is the identifier. |
| South Korea | Internet Registry Service (iros.go.kr) | Court-run corporate registry, Korean interface; the business registration number is verifiable via the tax service (Home Tax). |
| Sri Lanka | eROC (Registrar of Companies) | Department of the Registrar of Companies search; free index, paid extracts. |
| Syria | (no open register) | No accessible online company register; sanctions screening is mandatory before any counterparty assessment. |
| Tajikistan | Tax Committee Registry of Legal Entities | The working official register is the Tax Committee's unified registry, searchable by EIN or company name; the justice-ministry site is offline. |
| Thailand | DBD (Department of Business Development) | The DBD's data warehouse gives registered company data; the 13-digit registration number identifies the company. English and Thai. |
| Timor-Leste | SERVE (one-stop shop) | The one-stop business registration service holds company records; Portuguese/Tetum/English. |
| Turkmenistan | (no open register) | No public online company register; state-mediated trade only. |
| United Arab Emirates | Ministry of Economy - Federal Commercial Register | Federal license and company verification runs via the Ministry of Economy portal; every free zone is its own jurisdiction with its own registrar, and all 20 have their own rows in the table below (DIFC, ADGM, DMCC, JAFZA and the rest). The trade licence number is the key. |
| Uzbekistan | Soliq (tax service legal-entity data) | Unified register of legal entities via the tax service; Uzbek/Russian interfaces. |
| Vietnam | National Business Registration Portal | The official portal publishes enterprise registration data nationwide, free by tax code or name; the interface is Vietnamese (the old English section is gone). |
| Yemen | (no open register) | No functioning public company register; verify via banks and sanctions screening only. |
| Hong Kong | Companies Registry | The Companies Registry holds the register; e-Search runs through ICRIS and is paid. A major trading hub, so the incorporation certificate and BR number are worth verifying for every counterparty. |
| Taiwan | MOEA FindBiz | The Ministry of Economic Affairs' company search, free by unified business number or name; the site blocks automated visitors but is live. |
| Macao | Commercial Registry (DSAJ) | The Commercial and Movable Property Registry sits under the Legal Affairs Bureau; online consultation via its e-service portal. |
| British Indian Ocean Territory | (no register) | No civilian commerce and no company register. |
| Oceania — 28 jurisdictions |
| Australia | ASIC (ASIC Connect + ABN Lookup) | ABN Lookup (free) identifies the entity and names; ASIC Connect gives company details, some extracts paid. ACN/ABN is the identifier. |
| Fiji | Registrar of Companies (Digital Fiji) | The ROC moved to the Digital Fiji platform with a free entity-name search; full extracts require an ROC Pass login. |
| Kiribati | (no open register) | Company registration with the Attorney General's ministry; no online register. |
| Marshall Islands | Corporate Registry (IRI) | The official corporate registry is administered by IRI; searches largely paid. A major shipping-flag jurisdiction with many shell entities. |
| Micronesia | (no open register) | Business registration at state level; no online register. |
| Nauru | (no open register) | Company registration via the justice department; no online register. |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Companies Office | Free search of the register: directors, addresses, filings included. NZCN is the identifier. |
| Palau | (no open register) | Company registration with the state; no online register. |
| Papua New Guinea | IPA (Investment Promotion Authority) | The IPA keeps the companies register; searches through its online portal. |
| Samoa | MCIL Companies Register | Registry under the commerce ministry; offshore IBC regime, searches limited. |
| Solomon Islands | Solomon Business Registry (Company Haus) | Company Haus now operates as the Solomon Business Registry under the commerce ministry. |
| Tonga | Companies Register (Ministry of Commerce) | Company registration under the commerce ministry; no open online search. |
| Tuvalu | (no open register) | Company registration via the justice ministry; no online register. |
| Vanuatu | VFSC (Vanuatu Financial Services Commission) | The VFSC registry covers local and offshore companies; an offshore centre, so screen ownership carefully. |
| New Caledonia | RIDET (ISEE) | The official enterprise directory; the avis de situation per RIDET number is free. |
| French Polynesia | ISPF, Territorial Business Register (RTE) | The statistical institute keeps the territorial business register; RCS extracts sit with the Papeete commercial court. |
| Wallis and Futuna | (no open register) | Local commercial registry only; no online register at the source. |
| Cook Islands | Companies Office (Ministry of Justice) | Companies register with the Ministry of Justice in Rarotonga; searches and certificates run through the ministry, by request. |
| Niue | (no open register) | No local online register; entities from here are rare enough that bank-channel verification is the practical route. |
| Tokelau | (no open register) | NZ-administered territory without a local online company register. |
| Norfolk Island | Australian registers | Australian territory; companies sit in the Australian registers (ABN Lookup, ASIC). |
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Australian registers | Australian territory; companies sit in the Australian registers (ABN Lookup, ASIC). |
| Christmas Island | Australian registers | Australian territory; companies sit in the Australian registers (ABN Lookup, ASIC). |
| Antarctica | (no register) | The Antarctic Treaty system bars commercial activity; any 'company from Antarctica' is a fraud signal. |
| French Southern Territories | (no register) | No permanent population and no company register. |
| Pitcairn | (no register) | A few dozen residents; no company register. |
| Heard and McDonald Islands | (no register) | Uninhabited Australian territory; no company register. |
| US Minor Outlying Islands | (no register) | Uninhabited US territories; no company register. |
| UAE free zones — 42 jurisdictions |
| DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre) | Public Register (Registrar of Companies) | Free official search of all DIFC-registered entities; name, number, status. DFSA-regulated firms are separately listed on the DFSA public register. The site throttles automated visitors; in a browser it opens. |
| ADGM (Abu Dhabi Global Market) | Public Register (Registration Authority) | Official entity search showing incorporation date, status and entity type; FSRA-authorised firms are listed separately on the ADGM site. |
| DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) | Public Register + Business Directory | Authoritative register of the 26,000+ registered entities; a separate searchable business directory on the same site covers name and category lookups. |
| Dubai - all free zones (Unified Licence) | Dubai Unified Licence search (DET) | Every licence issued in Dubai, including all Dubai free zones, carries a Unified Licence number searchable here. The route of last resort for JAFZA, DAFZA, Meydan, IFZA, DWTC and DSO. Blocks automated visitors; in a browser it opens. |
| JAFZA (Jebel Ali Free Zone) | Dubai Unified Licence search | No public company search of its own; verify through the Dubai Unified Licence search or by written request to JAFZA. |
| DAFZA (Dubai Airport Free Zone) | Dubai Unified Licence search | No public company directory; use the Dubai Unified Licence search or contact DAFZ directly. |
| Dubai Silicon Oasis (DDA) | Dubai Unified Licence search | The DDA is the registrar for DSO and Dubai Digital Park but publishes no register; fall back to the Dubai Unified Licence search. |
| Dubai South (DWC) | Company Directory | Official searchable directory of businesses operating at Dubai South; for licence validity use the Dubai Unified Licence search. |
| Meydan Free Zone (Dubai) | Dubai Unified Licence search | No company search of its own; Meydan licences carry a Dubai Unified Licence number, searchable at the DET portal. |
| IFZA (Dubai) | Verification on request / DUL search | No public register; verification on request from IFZA or through the Dubai Unified Licence search. |
| RAKEZ (Ras Al Khaimah) | RAK business licence search (emirate) | RAKEZ has no register of its own; the emirate-level licence search may refuse connections from outside the region. The zone authority answers written verification requests. |
| SHAMS (Sharjah Media City) | Company Directory + licence verification | Browse and search registered companies by name; licence certificates can be verified separately on the SHAMS site. |
| Ajman Free Zone | AFZ companies dataset (open data) | Official government dataset listing AFZ company names in Arabic and English; a static snapshot, so treat it as an index, not proof of current status. |
| UAQ Free Trade Zone | Verify Licence | Verification by exact licence number only, character for character as on the issued licence; there is no name-based public register. |
| Fujairah Free Zone | Fujairah government (register on request) | No public register; the old zone domain is dead and the register answers to the Fujairah government's business pages. |
| Hamriyah Free Zone (Sharjah) | Document verification (HFZA) | No company list, but a digital document-verification service; useful to validate a certificate the counterparty hands you, not to discover one. |
| Masdar City Free Zone (Abu Dhabi) | Partner Directory (registered clients) | Official directory of registered clients showing company names and MC-series licence numbers. |
| KEZAD (Abu Dhabi; incl. KIZAD) | KEZAD Group (verification on request) | No public company search; verification is only possible on direct request to KEZAD Group. |
| twofour54 / Media Zone Authority (Abu Dhabi) | Media Zone Authority (licence confirmation) | No public register; contact the Media Zone Authority to confirm a licence. |
| DWTC Free Zone (Dubai) | Dubai Unified Licence search | No public company search; use the Dubai Unified Licence search as the official alternative. |
| Expo City Dubai | Business Directory | Official searchable directory of businesses at Expo City; licence status itself runs through the Dubai Unified Licence search. |
| DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre) | Public Register (Registrar of Companies) | Free official search of all DIFC-registered entities; name, number, status. DFSA-regulated firms are separately listed on the DFSA public register. The site throttles automated visitors; in a browser it opens. |
| ADGM (Abu Dhabi Global Market) | Public Register (Registration Authority) | Official entity search showing incorporation date, status and entity type; FSRA-authorised firms are listed separately on the ADGM site. |
| DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) | Public Register + Business Directory | Authoritative register of the 26,000+ registered entities; a separate searchable business directory on the same site covers name and category lookups. |
| Dubai - all free zones (Unified Licence) | Dubai Unified Licence search (DET) | Every licence issued in Dubai, including all Dubai free zones, carries a Unified Licence number searchable here. The route of last resort for JAFZA, DAFZA, Meydan, IFZA, DWTC and DSO. Blocks automated visitors; in a browser it opens. |
| JAFZA (Jebel Ali Free Zone) | Dubai Unified Licence search | No public company search of its own; verify through the Dubai Unified Licence search or by written request to JAFZA. |
| DAFZA (Dubai Airport Free Zone) | Dubai Unified Licence search | No public company directory; use the Dubai Unified Licence search or contact DAFZ directly. |
| Dubai Silicon Oasis (DDA) | Dubai Unified Licence search | The DDA is the registrar for DSO and Dubai Digital Park but publishes no register; fall back to the Dubai Unified Licence search. |
| Dubai South (DWC) | Company Directory | Official searchable directory of businesses operating at Dubai South; for licence validity use the Dubai Unified Licence search. |
| Meydan Free Zone (Dubai) | Dubai Unified Licence search | No company search of its own; Meydan licences carry a Dubai Unified Licence number, searchable at the DET portal. |
| IFZA (Dubai) | Verification on request / DUL search | No public register; verification on request from IFZA or through the Dubai Unified Licence search. |
| RAKEZ (Ras Al Khaimah) | RAK business licence search (emirate) | RAKEZ has no register of its own; the emirate-level licence search may refuse connections from outside the region. The zone authority answers written verification requests. |
| SHAMS (Sharjah Media City) | Company Directory + licence verification | Browse and search registered companies by name; licence certificates can be verified separately on the SHAMS site. |
| Ajman Free Zone | AFZ companies dataset (open data) | Official government dataset listing AFZ company names in Arabic and English; a static snapshot, so treat it as an index, not proof of current status. |
| UAQ Free Trade Zone | Verify Licence | Verification by exact licence number only, character for character as on the issued licence; there is no name-based public register. |
| Fujairah Free Zone | Fujairah government (register on request) | No public register; the old zone domain is dead and the register answers to the Fujairah government's business pages. |
| Hamriyah Free Zone (Sharjah) | Document verification (HFZA) | No company list, but a digital document-verification service; useful to validate a certificate the counterparty hands you, not to discover one. |
| Masdar City Free Zone (Abu Dhabi) | Partner Directory (registered clients) | Official directory of registered clients showing company names and MC-series licence numbers. |
| KEZAD (Abu Dhabi; incl. KIZAD) | KEZAD Group (verification on request) | No public company search; verification is only possible on direct request to KEZAD Group. |
| twofour54 / Media Zone Authority (Abu Dhabi) | Media Zone Authority (licence confirmation) | No public register; contact the Media Zone Authority to confirm a licence. |
| DWTC Free Zone (Dubai) | Dubai Unified Licence search | No public company search; use the Dubai Unified Licence search as the official alternative. |
| Expo City Dubai | Business Directory | Official searchable directory of businesses at Expo City; licence status itself runs through the Dubai Unified Licence search. |