Comms.ID Indigenous corporation

Indigenous corporation lookup

Search Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations by name, or look one up by ICN or ABN, with its live register page when the mode asks for it. Free under fair use.

Try it

Quickstart

Sign in to the Companion App and register your app. Enable ORIC only; one product needs no other.
Create your app's key pair on your server; Companion registers the public key.
Call the API with a short-lived token signed by your key:

curl -X POST https://api.comms.id/oric/v1/lookup \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $(npx comms-id token oric)" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"kind":"icn","value":"4172"}'

Reference: comms.id/docs/oric. For agents: llms.txt.

Operations

POST /oric/v1/lookup — Look up one corporation by ICN or ABN from the ORIC dataset, with its live register page when the mode asks for it, or by its register portal id. An unambiguous ICN lookup may carry identifierState: current or retired, with the source deregistration date as YYYY-MM-DD when available. Its value is the ICN with spaces removed. ABN, portal-id, ambiguous and unknown results omit the state; no successor ICN is invented.
POST /oric/v1/search — Search Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations by name in the ORIC dataset snapshot.

OpenAPI document: https://api.comms.id/oric/v1/openapi.json. Base URL https://api.comms.id.

Status and measured speed

State: checking…
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Method: this site's server sends one real signed query at most once a minute and times it from request to reply. The figure includes the hop from this site to the service.

How it compares

Each cell below quotes the vendor's own public page, with the date it was read, including where each one sends personal information. Where a page does not say, the cell says so; nothing is inferred.

Vendor	Indigenous corporation register coverage	Where personal information goes	Logs what you type	Pricing
ORIC Public Register of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations	The Registrar's own public register: filter by ICN, name, status, size and place of business, and open each corporation's details, documents and extract. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Stored partly on-premises and partly in the cloud, in its register systems; no country is named and overseas disclosure is not mentioned. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Its internet service provider logs each website visit, including queries and search terms, server address, date and time and files downloaded; users are not identified unless signed in or under a legal inspection. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Not stated on the register pages; no price is shown for searching the register. Source · not stated on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03
Supply Nation Indigenous Business Direct	A directory of Registered and Certified Indigenous suppliers maintained by Supply Nation (business name, ABN, ACN, AICN, sector, location); a membership directory, not the ORIC register. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	May be disclosed outside Australia, including to suppliers and service providers in the United States of America. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Yes: it keeps a log of interactions including search questions, through cookies and ajax tables, with IP address and web log data. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Not stated on the privacy policy; the directory is reached through membership and supplier registration. Source · not stated on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03
Australian Business Register ABN Lookup web services	ABN records by number or name, with the entity type (an ORIC-registered corporation is one type); web services are free after registration. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Administered by three Australian government agencies. The ATO's policy says most personal information is kept in Australia, with overseas disclosure under tax treaties, and that its web analytics data is processed and stored in the USA. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	The ATO's policy says web server logs record visits and are not used to identify users except under a warrant; it says nothing about web-service queries. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03	Free of charge, after registration. Source · read on the vendor's page, read 2026-10-03

Vendor

Indigenous corporation register coverage

Where personal information goes

Logs what you type

Pricing

ORIC

Public Register of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations

The Registrar's own public register: filter by ICN, name, status, size and place of business, and open each corporation's details, documents and extract.