World Registry

This section should contain some information about existing international and national registers of

• countries and rulers (see e.g. ISO Country codes, CIA World Leaders, Rulers.org)
• citizens and residents (see e.g. Global Identity Summit, Biometric Consortium, World Identity Network, Aadhaar)
• authors - ISNI contains names of authors and publishers of books, music, films etc. since the time of Diogenes of Sinope. Try to find yourself there. If you fail - write a book, send it to Library of Congress and wait...
• books and serial publications (see ISSN, ISBN)
• domains, sites and blogs (see TLD)
• legal entities (see LEI), businesses (see DUNS), banks (Swift BIC)
• mass media

TWG also intends to create registers of

• states, including States that ceased to exist and States with limited recognition - http://states.world
• global political parties/internationals and organizations - http://org.world
• world religions - http://rel.world
• world languages

Legal Entities

Worldwide Legal Entities Register is being built under G20 Cannes Summit decision (2011) by Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Now (November 2018) the LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) database includes about 1.3 million entities. Registration is voluntary, but in some countries LEI number is required for securities trade.

• Official LEI Database by GLEIF
• LEI.info - Extended LEI Database by Makolab (Poland) including data added by companies (website URL etc.) with advanced search options

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There still exist some private initiatives, e.g. Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Universal Numbering System (D-U-N-S Number). It started in 1963 and now includes more than 300 million businesses worldwide.

• D&B Global Directory

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Banks

• SWIFT BIC (Bank Identifier Codes) Database - more than 11.000 banks in the World

Books and publishers

• Global Register of Publishers by International ISBN Agency