Websites you can check to see if your business name is available
(extremely important for Branding purposes)
- Fictitious Business Name / FBN
Doing Business As / DBA -
County Clerk for San Bernardino County https://arcselfservice.sbcounty.gov/web/action/ACTIONGROUP201S3
- FBN – Riverside County https://webselfservice.riversideacr.com/Web/search/DOCSEARCH2805S1
- FBN – Los Angeles County http://apps1.lavote.net/CLERK/FBN_Search.cfm
- FBN – Orange County https://cr.ocgov.com/FBNOnlineNet/
- Corporation and LLC names -
Secretary of State’s website https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/search/business - Trademarks - https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search
- Domain name availability http://www.networksolutions.com
- Facebook name availability (shortcut) http://www.facebook.com/(yourbusinessname)
- Instagram name availability http://www.instagram.com
- Pinterest name availability (shortcut) http://pinterest.com/(yourbusinessname)
- YouTube name availability (shortcut) http://youtube.com/(yourbusinessname)