BIN or BN number?

[Inspired by Reggio]

And of course they charge you to search the business names!!! Useful online service though. Thanks Reggio

I will admit I am cheap and did not pay for that option ... I did my own 'search' when I started my business by googling the name and variations that I wanted to use and seeing if any websites and so forth came up, perusing the local advertizing sites and so forth for daycares and none were any where close to my name I wanted so I went ahead and registered it.

Basically the challenge with 'not' paying to have a search done is if you were to choose a business name that someone else already HAD and they registered it 'first' than can take you to court and make you change your business name ... but seriously it is not like we are really 'branding' ourselves like McDonalds or Nike .... if you google things like 'tender loving care' or 'Kindercare' or ABC Childcare and so forth there are 1000's across Canada and the States by that same name and no one is suing each other ... I would not waste money and just do a search for your area on kijiji, here and so forth and make sure you are not choosing a name of a DIRECT competitor!

[bright sparks]

I did a search when I started 5 years ago. I did another one today and also on the site you advised of. I basically thought about all the money I would be spending on coffee in a week at drive thru's if I was commuting and thought this was an okay way to spend $8 with all the coffee money I've saved lol

I really like the idea of putting the BIN instead of the SIN to prevent any risk of identity theft if it fell into the wrong hands. My closest competitor with my daycare name in the licensed childcare industry is in Australia at a preschool and its popular in the UK for both home based and centre based childcare which is bothe licensed, registered and heavily regulated.