DE registered agent
Delaware. A registered agent for $27 a year. Room temperature.
Somewhere in the Delaware code there is a paragraph about registered agents. We pasted the relevant part below. The rest of the page is what Delaware does when the paragraph is not met, which, with us, is the usual outcome, or whatever.
Where the lawsuit goes instead
Service, somewhere else
... purposes as if made in any of the ways provided for in subsection (a) of this section. ... It shall be the duty of the plaintiff in the event of such service to serve process and any other papers in ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 321(b) [effective until Aug. 1, 2026]; see §§ 136(c), 502(d); 6 Del. C. § 18-105(b) (LLCs)
The Delaware annual report, which you could also not do
Once a year Delaware wants a form and a fee to keep your company on the list. The fee is below. Not paying it is in keeping with the rest of this page, or whatever.
Yearly report, corporation
$50 a year, give or take nothing.
... Report or Amended Annual Report for non-exempt domestic corporations the filing fee ...
Source: official state fee schedule, via incFACTS: https://corp.delaware.gov/frtax/
What Delaware had in mind
What is required
The Delaware code, more or less word for word:
... or (4) A foreign corporation, a foreign limited liability partnership, a foreign limited partnership ..., a foreign limited liability company or a foreign statutory trust. ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 132(a), (b); accord 6 Del. C. § 18-104(a) (LLCs)
What Delaware does next
The state keeps a list of things it does to a company whose agent is not really there. Here is the list, pasted, unedited, because editing it would be effort.
Dissolved, administratively
... agent as aforesaid prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Authority revoked, foreign companies
... aforesaid prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the Secretary ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 136(b); see § 132(f)(4)
Also, apparently
... aforesaid prior to the expiration of the period of 30 days after the filing by the registered agent of the certificate of resignation, the certificate of ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 6 Del. C. § 18-104(d); see § 18-104(i)(4)
A penalty, in dollars
... annual franchise tax report with the Secretary of State on or before March 1, ...
Source: state statute, via incFACTS: 8 Del. C. § 502(c); see §§ 510, 502(f)
How that lands with us
Lukewarm. We read it once. It did not change anything.
Coming back, if you feel like it
There is a fee to bring a Delaware company back. incFACTS has not confirmed the figure, and we did not ask, or whatever.
The quoted passages were captured by incFACTS on 2026-08-01 and compared to the live code on 2026-08-10. Laws get amended. This page mostly does not.