Search for a Business Entity

Search for a Business Entity is the state business-entity register operated by the Delaware Department of State, Division of Corporations. Search fields: Two search fields only: Entity Name and File Number. Filed documents and certificates are ordered separately for a fee.

Visit Search for a Business Entity (opens in a new tab)icis.corp.delaware.gov

PetroHrys Score

PetroHrys Score
76
Domain Rating
Not measured

Domain Rating is a dated Ahrefs snapshot of domain authority. PetroHrys Score is an independent editorial assessment of the directory’s practical business value. They are separate measurements and are never combined. Domain Rating values are dated historical Ahrefs snapshots. New measurements are not collected because the Research Center does not depend on mandatory authenticated APIs. Domain Rating is a third-party metric produced by their respective providers, not by PetroHrys.com. Each recorded value carries its provider and the date it was measured, and describes the domain that was measured rather than one page on it. No source has been consulted for authority score, estimated traffic and referring domains, so they are not published for any record.

Domain Rating by Ahrefs (opens in a new tab)

Verification

Verification status
Verified
Verification source
Government register
Last verified
Next verification due
Editorial reviewer
Petro Hrys

Registry information

Operator
Delaware Department of State, Division of Corporations Government agency
Registry type
Business entity register
Jurisdiction
Delaware US-DE
Scope
Subnational
Public access
Partly open The search itself is free; documents, certificates and status products are charged separately.

Assessment

Strengths

  • Search for a Business Entity can be searched free of charge and without an account, directly from the Delaware Department of State, Division of Corporations.
  • The Delaware Department of State, Division of Corporations is the statutory source for Delaware, so an entry exists because a filing was made — not because anyone submitted a listing.

Limitations

  • Documents are a separate paid product — the $20 status product "will NOT return actual images of the documents on record" — so the free tier returns index data only.
  • Part of Search for a Business Entity sits behind payment, an account or another restriction, so the free tier answers only part of a due-diligence question.
  • A Delaware search result proves only that a name is on the Division's index with a file number and formation date. It does not prove good standing (the Division says so explicitly — the online status is not a certificate of good standing), does not prove franchise-tax compliance, does not identify officers, directors, members or beneficial owners, does not constitute a business licence, and says nothing about solvency, trading activity or creditworthiness.

Submission guidance

Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.

Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown

Best for

Not recommended for

Preparation checklist

No checklist recorded yet.

Common mistakes

No common mistakes recorded yet.

Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.

What this directory accepts

Startups
Yes
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Unknown
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown

Recommended industries

How the PetroHrys Score was reached

Editorial trust 15%
9 / 10 How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
5 / 10 How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
8 / 10 How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
7 / 10 How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10 How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
8 / 10 How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
9 / 10 How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
6 / 10 What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
7 / 10 How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
7 / 10 How the directory maintains entries after publication.

The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.

Often used together

Guides covering this directory

No guide covers this directory yet.

Where this sits