Business and Intellectual Property Authority

Start your business with BIPA.

Search the Namibian business register

Check whether a business is registered, find the form you need, and see what BIPA has published. No account needed.

Or check what a company owes

Start here

What are you here to do?

Six things this register is for. Most of them need no account.

  • Start something

    Register a business, reserve a name, or protect a patent, trade mark or design.

  • Stay compliant

    Annual returns, annual duty, beneficial ownership, good standing and deregistration.

  • Forms & documents

    Every form, directive, notice and Act BIPA publishes.

  • Get help

    How to do things, fees, banking details and complaints.

  • About BIPA

    Who BIPA is, news, public notices, tenders and careers.

  • Not sure which form?

    Pick a kind of business and see every form that applies to it, what to prepare, and what it costs.

The register today

What is on this register

Registered entities
140,564
Close corporation
113,637
Private company (Pty) Ltd
24,271
Section 21 / non-profit
2,259
External / foreign company
397
Documents published
428

Khomas, from the extract dated 2 July 2026 — 1 of Namibia’s 14 regions.