Whois & Analysis for opencorporates.com

OpenCorporates is a website which shares data on corporate entities as open data under the share-alike attribution Open Database Licence.

It was created by Chris Taggart and Rob McKinnon, under the auspices of their company, Chrinon Ltd, and launched on 20 December 2010.

It has the aims of creating a URL with such data for every corporate entity in the world, importing government data relating to companies and matching it to specific companies.

Panama, officially called the Republic of Panama, is a country usually considered to be entirely in North America or Central America.

It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia (in South America) to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.

The capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half of the country's 4.1 million people.

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a federal republic in Europe.

It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities.

A corporation is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

Early incorporated entities were established by charter (i.e. by an ad hoc act granted by a monarch or passed by a parliament or legislature).

Most jurisdictions now allow the creation of new corporations through registration.

A company, abbreviated co., is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.

Company members share a common purpose and unite in order to focus their various talents and organize their collectively available skills or resources to achieve specific, declared goals.

Companies take various forms such as: