Explainer
What a CIN actually means
By Vipul Patel · For founders who just got an incorporation certificate
A Corporate Identification Number (CIN) is the 21-character id the Registrar of Companies assigns to a company in India. It is not a GSTIN, not a PAN, and not a website slug. If you run a private limited or an OPC, it is on the certificate of incorporation.
How to read 21 characters
Take a number like U20111PN2026PTC259169 (a real listing pattern on Huunr):
- U — listing status. U is unlisted; L is listed.
- 20111 — industry code used at incorporation (NIC-style). It is a hint, not a promise of what the company does today.
- PN — state / registrar code (here, Pune / Maharashtra). Other common codes include DL, MH, KA, GJ, TN.
- 2026 — year of incorporation.
- PTC — company class. PTC is private limited, PLC public, OPC one person, NPL not-for-profit, FTC subsidiary of a foreign company, among others.
- The last six digits — a sequential registration number.
LLPIN is a different animal
A Limited Liability Partnership is not issued a CIN. It gets an LLPIN, often looking like AAA-0000 or a later alphabetic series. Huunr stores whichever identifier the record carried, and the page labels it CIN or LLPIN so you are not told an LLP has a CIN.
What we show on the company page
On an unclaimed Huunr page you should see the legal name, identifier, date of registration, registered office, and directors with DIN where the record included them. That is enough to tell “this is that company” without pretending we have their phone number.
Example from the directory: SHELBY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS LLP (ADB-4376) in Bangalore.
Search the directory by CIN if you already have the number: huunr.com/directory/all.
Huunr is not a government filing portal. For the statutory record, use the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. For a public, claimable page that also sits next to a business community, that is us.