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State Business Entity Search is a private website. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by any Secretary of State, state agency or the federal government. The official search for each state is linked from that state's entry.
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A search here reports what a state's published list held on the data date shown. "No match" does not mean a name can be filed, and a match does not always mean it cannot. Names reserved or filed in the last few days may be missing. Only the state decides.
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A state business name is not a trademark. A name that is clear on a state register can still infringe someone's mark. The United States Patent and Trademark Office runs the federal trademark search.
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Domain name results
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State data notices
Texas results come from the Comptroller's list of active franchise taxpayers, which is not the Secretary of State's register.
Iowa results come from the Iowa Data Hub file "Active Iowa Business Entities", used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
District of Columbia results come from the District's open data file "Corporate Registration".
Colorado requires this notice with its data:
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