AK registered agent
Alaska registered agent service, $2.50 a year
Alaska requires every corporation and LLC on its books to keep a registered agent at a real address in the state. Here is what Alaska law says about who that agent has to be and where it has to be.
What Alaska requires of a registered agent
The requirement
A corporation (and an LLC, under materially identical language in AS 10.50.055) must continuously maintain an in-state registered agent and registered office. The agent may be an individual Alaska resident whose business office is the same as the registered office, or a domestic or foreign CORPORATION authorized to transact business in Alaska with the same business office. Note: both the corporation and LLC statutes list only individuals and corporations as eligible agents; LLCs are not listed. Foreign corporations: AS 10.06.753.
A corporation shall continuously maintain in this state a registered agent and a registered office. The registered office may be the same as the place of business of the corporation. The registered agent may be either an individual resident of this state whose business office is the same as the registered office, or a domestic or foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state whose business office is the same as the registered office.
Source: state statute, via FACTS: Alaska Stat. § 10.06.150 (corporations); § 10.50.055 (LLCs); § 10.06.753 (foreign corporations)
How we comply
We don't.
What Alaska does to your company when we don't
Here is what the state does to an entity that has no agent, or whose agent is us.
Administrative dissolution
The commissioner may involuntarily dissolve a corporation (or LLC) that has failed for 30 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent, or failed for 30 days after a change to file a statement of change - after written notice and a 60-day contest/cure window. On issuance of the certificate of involuntary dissolution the entity's existence ceases, and its name becomes available to others six months after dissolution.
(a) A corporation may be dissolved involuntarily by the commissioner if ... (2) the corporation has failed for 30 days to appoint and maintain a registered agent in the state; (3) the corporation has failed for 30 days after change of its registered office or registered agent to file in the office of the commissioner a statement of the change;
Source: state statute, via FACTS: Alaska Stat. § 10.06.633(a)(2)-(3), (d) (corporations); § 10.50.408(a)(2)-(3) (LLCs)
Revocation (foreign entities)
A foreign corporation's certificate of authority may be revoked by the commissioner for failure to appoint and maintain a registered agent or to file a statement of change after a change of registered office or agent.
A certificate of authority of a foreign corporation to transact business in this state may be revoked by the commissioner when ... (2) the corporation fails to appoint and maintain a registered agent in this state; (3) the corporation fails, after change of its registered office or registered agent, to file with the commissioner a statement of the change as required by this chapter;
Source: state statute, via FACTS: Alaska Stat. § 10.06.743(2)-(3)
The bill to come back
Reinstatement fee
Reinstatement is available only within two years of involuntary dissolution and, where there was cause, requires correcting the failure and paying double the amount delinquent plus the amounts that would have accrued during dissolution (same formula for LLCs, AS 10.50.408(e)).
A corporation dissolved under this section may be reinstated within two years from the date of the certificate of involuntary dissolution if it is established to the satisfaction of the commissioner that in fact there was no cause for the dissolution, or if the neglect, omission, delinquency, or noncompliance resulting in dissolution has been corrected and payment made of double the amount delinquent along with the amount the corporation would have paid had it not been dissolved during the two-year period.
Source: state statute, via FACTS: Alaska Stat. § 10.06.633(e); § 10.50.408(e) (LLCs)
What happens to the lawsuit you never saw
Substituted service
If the entity fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be found at the registered office, the commissioner (Department of Commerce) becomes the entity's agent for service; the serving party pays a regulation-set fee and must also send notice and the papers to the entity by certified mail. Identical mechanism for LLCs (AS 10.50.065(b)) and for foreign corporations, including those whose authority is suspended or revoked (AS 10.06.765).
(b) If a corporation fails to appoint or maintain a registered agent in this state, or if its registered agent cannot, with reasonable diligence, be found at the registered office, the commissioner is an agent of the corporation upon whom the process, notice, or demand may be served. A person may serve the commissioner under this subsection by (1) serving on the commissioner or the designee of the commissioner a copy of the process, notice, or demand, with any papers required by law to be delivered in connection with the service, and a fee established by the department by regulation; ...
Source: state statute, via FACTS: Alaska Stat. § 10.06.175(b); § 10.50.065(b) (LLCs); § 10.06.765 (foreign corporations)
Statutory text as captured by FACTS (retrieved 2026-08-01, verified word-for-word against the state code 2026-08-10). Laws change. The statute governs; this page does not.