About State Business Entity Search
State Business Entity Search is a private website for people about to name a company. It is not a government site, and it is not affiliated with any Secretary of State or state agency.
What the search reads
8 places publish a list of business names as open data that anyone may read: Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oregon, Connecticut, Iowa, District of Columbia. The Texas list is the Comptroller's franchise tax roll, and the others come from the office that keeps the business register. When you type a name, the site asks that state's data service for matching records and shows them with the entity type, status, filing date and the state's record number.
It shows nothing else. Officers, agents, home addresses, emails and phone numbers are never requested from the state, even where the data holds them.
What the state entries hold
Each of the 51 state entries gives the link to the state's own search, the name endings the state accepts, its filing fees and its naming rules. Every one of those facts comes from the state's statute or agency page, and the sources are listed at the end of each entry with the date they were retrieved.
What a result is not
A result is a reading of published data on the date shown. It is not a name reservation, a clearance, legal advice or a ruling by a state. Only the state decides whether a name can be filed, and a state business name is not a trademark.
How the site is paid for
The site carries no advertising today. The domain name buttons open a registrar's own search, and the site is not paid for those links today. If either changes, the disclaimer and the privacy policy will say so first.
Corrections
Fees and rules change. If a figure here no longer matches the state's page, write to hello@statebusinessentitysearch.com with the state and the official page. The editorial policy explains how facts are gathered and corrected.