Talk:Registered agent

History of corporations
"over 100 years since the dates when the first corporations were formed in the United States."

According to the "Corporations" article, corporations have existed in the United States since the seventeenth century. That statement must be referring to something other than the formation of the "first" ones. Unfree (talk) 04:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Page is Being Utilized Ad-Nauseum for Advertising
It appears that a few agencies have interns or employees dedicated to checking the article several times a day to ensure that the numbers of the companies appear.

"Nevada Resident Agent Association" is a business, and not a regulatory body as it purports to be in several Wiki articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CoolDiscoDan (talk • contribs)
 * With respect tot he 'Big Four', that is and has been in the past a rather controversial subject since such a concept obviously of interest mostly to the numbers three and for and a thorn in the eyes of all that come beyond. Logically, there are of course the largest two, three, four, five and so on, but that doesn't mean that there are the 'Big Four'. At that time no reliable sources have been found anyways, just some websites some of which close to Incorp. The compromise found in the past at Registered agent was avoiding the mentioning of 'Big Four' and just listing those who have an article.Tikiwont (talk)

Come on guys, now every Registered Agent Company in existence is throwing their name on the page. Page may be a deletion candidate as it spam-vandalized daily for advertising. Unless someone is on top of it, it loses any encyclopedic value. "National Registered Agent Services Company" is now in on the gig. CoolDiscoDan (talk) 14:56, 2 May 2008 (UTC).
 * As already said the criterion so far was not existence but already having an article here. What are you suggestions how to cover the Registered Agent Company industry?--Tikiwont (talk) 15:43, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

How about a "Disadvantages" paragraph?, for non-POV

Agreed, there should be a "Disadvantages" paragraph in order to be an unbiased article.2601:B:B980:50:8F8:A54B:237D:7969 (talk) 02:13, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

The individual listing of registered agent providers should be stopped and list associations that registered agent providers belong to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NPRRA (talk • contribs) 18:55, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * So it is the NPRRA's unbiased opinion that only organizations like (let me guess), the NPRRA should be referenced? It is my opinion that the presence of notable service providers with articles is not an issue, does not constitute "advertising", and I believe that their exclusion would harm the article making it incomplete. LoyolaGirl (talk) 22:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

You can tell most of this page was written by the registered agents that keep trying to get themselves listed in the registered agent providers category. Wikipedia should not be written in a way to advertise certain private companies. There are no wikiguidelines that support adding private registered agent companies to this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoineRDM (talk • contribs) 19:46, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
 * WP is not advertising and even were your theory correct, I'm not sure what advantage you feel would be realized by these companies. Would they no longer be registered agents if not referenced in the article? I assure you that Wiki does support referencing notable companies if they are relevant to the article. Could you elaborate? LoyolaGirl (talk) 22:22, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

As a registered agent service here in Florida, the made up PR pitch that there is such a thing as a Big 4 registered agent companies is laughable at best. Those 4 companies are not the biggest 4 here in FLA. I work with a Delaware registered agent, and those 4 aren't the biggest in Delaware either. My assumption is that LoyolaGirl is an alias by Incorp Services Inc and according to the new rules of Wikipedia should come clean and tell us so.

The point of looking something up on Wikipedia should be to learn about the topic. This whole article is written under the assumption that you should hire a registered agent service and that somehow it is more common than not. A major majority of businesses do not hire registered agents, so I would propose we quit having the advertising on this page that Incorp Services Inc is putting on here. The only mention of Big 4, is on Incorp Services Inc alias websites, press releases by Incorp Services Inc, and books written by Incorp Services Inc. It would appear that the entire thing is only really made up to validate trying to advertise on Wikipedia. Looking at the history of alias editors on the registered agent page and the Incorp Services Inc company page, it's obvious these are not third party editors. No one would so vigilantly edit and slant an entire article to pitch registered agent services and create a phony idea of there being only 4 relevant registered agent services. And the irony of it is that those "Big 4" aren't the biggest 4. If you were to look at the entire picture of what someone would want to see when they search for "registered agent" on WikiPedia, Incorp Services Inc and the other 3 registered agent services they tried to wrap into this to try to include themselves with are not relevant. In fact the entire Incorp Services Inc company page should be removed. They aren't notable, and neither is any registered agent service.

Is there a way to block aliases that are trying to advertise their registered agent services on this page?????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.46.230.130 (talk) 16:04, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

State Requirements
What states DO NOT require that you have a registered agent or physical location open for business located within the state? Most publications say "almost all states" or "most states", so which states are the acception? If I have a business in California and am qualified with SOS office in all fifty states, which states will I not need to use my registered agent for? (69.43.168.68 (talk) 00:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC))

New scholarly article on registered agents
I'm a law professor and the author of the only recent scholarly article on registered agents. In case it's of interest to any editors of this article, I describe registered agency as a legal technology for avoiding notice risk; quantify some of the unjustified economic costs of registered agency; identify other social costs and risks it causes; and propose that states start to move toward service via email as an alternative.

The article, Notice Risk and Registered Agency, was published in 46 Journal of Corporation Law 75 (2021) and a free copy is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3565606.

--171.66.13.22 (talk) 16:49, 7 June 2021 (UTC)