June 2025 FZLZ Minute

Delaware–August 1 deadline for businesses to preserve DBA names on a statewide basis

Prior to a new law enacted this year, companies that wanted to register DBA names in Delaware had to do so in each county they wanted to use them in, which usually meant all of them.(Granted, this burden was less onerous than it would be in any other state, since Delaware only has three counties, New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, the fewest of any state in the union.) Under the new law, effective June 2, companies can register DBAs with the Delaware Division of Revenue and can no longer register them with individual counties.

But this applies to DBAs that have already been registered with Delaware counties. Failing to re-register a DBA with the state by August 1 will cause the DBA to lose its priority such that another filer could claim the DBA if they are the first to file.