Tag: state-guides
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Idaho SOSBiz portal — Incapsula behind a clean UI
Idaho's Secretary of State business registry is clean, well-indexed, and freely searchable. It is also one of the slowest states to pull officer and ownership data from, because the portal enforces strict rate limits…
Indiana SOS — DBA and former-name records in one search
When an LLC or corporation changes its name, the old name doesn't vanish. In Indiana, a single search at the Secretary of State pulls the current legal name, all assumed names (DBAs), and the full history of prior…
Arkansas SOS search — free but anti-bot heavy
Arkansas Secretary of State entity search is free and reaches most records, but the portal sits behind Akamai protection with hCaptcha at the gate. You will hit it. If you're running batch lookups for deal flow, you…
Connecticut business registry — the gold standard for principal addresses
Connecticut's Secretary of State publishes live business-entity data via a public Socrata API at data.ct.gov. That API includes principal residential addresses for every registered agent and officer on file. For…
Hawaii BREG portal — double-captcha and what gets through
Hawaii's business-entity portal requires you to solve two reCAPTCHAs just to run a single free lookup. One is visible (v2). One runs silently in the background (v3). Together they cost Google $0.006 per query, and…
Alabama corporate verification — what the Secretary of State actually returns
Alabama's online entity lookup is buried in a subdomain most underwriters miss. The portal at arc-sos.state.al.us returns good data — articles of organization, registered agent, member/manager names — but the fields…
Alaska business entity search — small state, surprising data depth
Alaska's commerce.alaska.gov CBP (Corporations, Business, and Professions) portal is free and returns full officer rosters in a single search — no login, no fees, no API nonsense. It is also aggressively…
Arizona Corporation Commission — verifying entities behind 6-character captchas
Arizona's eCorp portal at ecorp.azcc.gov is the Arizona Corporation Commission's entity-lookup system. It's free, unauthenticated, no rate limit. It requires a 6-character image captcha on every search, which is…