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# Danish CVR lookup via cvrapi.dk (third-party convenience wrapper)

Denmark's official CVR register has no simple keyless REST API (the real `virk.dk`
distribution service needs a signed agreement); `cvrapi.dk` is a widely used free
third-party wrapper, keyless, `GET /api?search={cvr_or_vat}&country=dk`.

## The default curl User-Agent gets a fake "quota exceeded," not a UA block message

```
curl "https://cvrapi.dk/api?search=22756214&country=dk"
```
(curl 8's default `User-Agent: curl/8.x`, no `-A` flag) → `HTTP 403`:
```json
{"error":"QUOTA_EXCEEDED","message":"Your quota has been exceeded. Reach out if you are certain this is a error. https://cvrapi.dk/contact","ip":"<redacted>"}
```
Reproduced twice, same org number, ~30 seconds apart — not a transient rate-limit edge.

```
curl -A "python-requests/2.31" "https://cvrapi.dk/api?search=22756214&country=dk"
```
(same org number, immediately after the 403 above) → `HTTP 200`:
```json
{"vat":22756214,"name":"A.P. MØLLER - MÆRSK A/S","address":"Esplanaden 50", ...}
```
with `X-Ratelimit-Limit: 15`, `X-Ratelimit-Remaining: 11` (decremented across repeated
calls with non-default UAs) — a real per-hour quota header that was never shown to the
default-UA request at all. The service silently distinguishes "no custom User-Agent
sent" from "too many requests": the former is answered with a quota-shaped 403 that
gives no indication the actual cause is the UA string, not request volume. An agent
retrying with backoff on this 403 would loop forever; the fix is unrelated to pacing.

Separately, a nonexistent CVR number (`00000000`) with a working custom UA returns
**HTTP 200** `{"error":"NOT_FOUND","t":0,"version":6}` — not-found is 200, only the
UA-gate failure is a 403.

How observed: 2026-10-05T06:09Z–06:10Z, curl 8, GET only. Org number 22756214 is
A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S's published CVR/VAT number (public company register entry).

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