A continuous, independent measurement of whether the world's official company registers actually work — and what they put between the public and basic company data.
Official company registers are critical public infrastructure: due diligence, KYC, anti-money-laundering checks and investigative journalism all depend on them. Yet their reliability is almost never measured. companyinfo.me monitors 128 official registers from the outside, every day, from within each register's own country. This report presents the current findings.
Data as of: · measurement window: rolling 90 days
6 of 128 monitored official registers (5%) showed degraded or no availability within the current 90-day window; 70 registers (55%) stayed below 99% availability — a level at which time-critical verification (KYC, sanctions-adjacent checks) routinely fails.
12 registers (9%) gate basic company data behind a captcha and 2 more sit behind an enterprise bot-challenge wall — barriers that block automated access outright and frequently impede human researchers as well.
Europe's registers are measurably more dependable: average availability of 97.5% across 33 European registers versus 88.5% across 95 registers in the rest of the world, and a higher share of barrier-free public access (85% vs 91%).
The median register was available 94.4% of the time; 58 registers recorded no measured downtime at all. The full per-register dataset is published below and free to reuse with attribution.
European registers operate under open-data and company-law directives that most other jurisdictions lack. The gap is measurable:
| Region | Registers | Avg. availability | Median | Open access | Captcha-gated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe (EU/EEA/UK/CH) | 33 | 97.5% | 100.0% | 85% | 4 |
| Rest of world | 95 | 88.5% | 94.4% | 91% | 8 |
Beyond downtime, registers differ in what they place in front of basic company data. We classify each register by the strongest barrier observed on its official public search:
A captcha must be solved before basic company information is reachable — blocking automated access and slowing every human lookup.
An enterprise anti-bot layer (Cloudflare challenge, DataDome, Imperva or similar) challenges or blocks visitors before the register loads at all.
The register's public search is reachable without captcha or challenge wall.
Current availability and access barrier of the registers journalists ask about most:
| Register | Availability | Status | Access barrier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 77.8% | operational | none |
| 🇫🇷 France | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | 100.0% | operational | Captcha before data |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇦🇹 Austria | 88.9% | operational | none |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | 94.4% | operational | Bot-challenge wall |
| 🇺🇸 United States | 77.8% | operational | none |
| 🇨🇳 China | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | 100.0% | operational | none |
90-day availability of each official register, measured from within its own country. Lower is worse.
| Register | Availability | Status | Access barrier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇳🇵 Nepal | 0.0% | degraded | none |
| 🇳🇪 Niger | 27.8% | unavailable | none |
| 🇹🇬 Togo | 27.8% | unavailable | none |
| 🇬🇦 Gabon | 33.3% | unavailable | none |
| 🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire | 38.9% | operational | none |
| 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | 44.4% | operational | none |
| 🇪🇨 Ecuador | 44.4% | degraded | none |
| 🇹🇳 Tunisia | 55.6% | operational | none |
| 🇼🇸 Samoa | 61.1% | operational | none |
| 🇸🇳 Senegal | 66.7% | operational | none |
| 🇰🇲 Comoros | 72.2% | operational | none |
| 🇭🇹 Haiti | 72.2% | unavailable | none |
| Register | Availability | Status | Access barrier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇷 Argentina | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇧🇬 Bulgaria | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇨🇱 Chile | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇨🇳 China | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇨🇿 Czechia | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇪🇪 Estonia | 100.0% | operational | none |
| 🇫🇮 Finland | 100.0% | operational | none |
Every register is probed from an IP address within its own country, so geo-blocking cannot masquerade as availability and the measurement reflects what a domestic user actually experiences.
Each register's official public endpoint is probed at least daily; the availability figures are the rolling 90-day uptime published live on our public status board. A day counts by its WORST observed state.
Operational — search and data retrieval answered normally. Degraded — the register answered but a function was impaired (e.g. document retrieval failing while search works). Unavailable — the official endpoint did not answer or returned its outage page.
Each register's official public search is fingerprinted for captcha systems and anti-bot challenge layers; a register is classified by the strongest barrier observed in the most recent infrastructure scan.
Availability is measured from the outside and can differ from register-internal figures; barrier classification reflects the most recent scan and can change when a register redeploys; registers added recently have a shorter history within the window. We publish the raw per-register data precisely so findings can be checked.
The complete per-register dataset (availability, status, access barrier, region) is downloadable below. Reuse is free with a link to this report as the source.
The complete per-register dataset as CSV, updated continuously with the report. Free to reuse — attribution link to this page.
Download dataset (CSV)companyinfo.me — The State of Company Registers 2026, https://companyinfo.me/reports/company-registers-2026For journalists: we provide the raw data, custom cuts by country or region, high-resolution charts, and on-the-record comment — usually within hours. Every register we cover is monitored live on our public status page.
Download press kit (logo, banner, boilerplate, fact sheet, dataset)Custom data cuts for your readership on request — by country, region or topic.
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companyinfo.me provides official company-register documents and data from 128 countries through a single interface, sourced directly from each country's official register. It continuously monitors the availability of every register it covers and publishes the live status at companyinfo.me/status. companyinfo.me is operated by FORENSIC INTELLIGENCE PTE LTD, Singapore.