What Atlas holds for Iceland
Source: the Atlas database, updated automatically.
The official records
Iceland's statutory company register, Fyrirtækjaskrá, is maintained by Skatturinn (the national tax authority) and issues every entity a kennitala, a ten-digit identifier formatted DDMMYY-RRRR, with companies distinguished by adding four to the first digit. A basic name or kennitala search is free and public, returning legal form, registered address, municipality and ÍSAT industry code, Iceland's adaptation of NACE. For a nation of roughly 380,000 people the register is unusually complete, covering tens of thousands of active entities.
Records are keyed on the kennitala rather than the identifiers those tools expect, and most filings and company sites are in Icelandic. The economy concentrates in fisheries, aluminium smelting, geothermal and hydro energy, tourism and a lively software and gaming scene around Reykjavík, sectors where a single funding round or new hire is materially significant. Atlas reads the register and Icelandic news directly, surfacing those moves early.
How to use the register
- Start from the register, not from a bought list. It is the legal record of every company.
- Read the status field. Registers keep closed companies too. See how many have closed in other registers.
- Check the website belongs to the company, with the registration number or a distinguishing name on the page.
Sources
Descriptions are based on the national sources above. Figures in the text are rounded and change over time. Found an error? Write to atlasforgex@proton.me. More countries: business data by country and registers by country.