“The company is gone” can mean four quite different things in the Norwegian register, and the difference matters a great deal to anyone waiting to be paid. The register carries each as its own field, with a date.
Bankruptcy
The konkurs field is set when bankruptcy proceedings have been opened. The estate takes control and a trustee is appointed — who is himself or herself registered as a role on the company. Shipping on credit to a company in this state is joining the back of the queue.
The bankruptcy estate usually gets its own organisation number, under the legal form KBO. It is a separate entity in the register, not the same thing as the company it came from.
Under liquidation
Under liquidation is voluntary: the owners have decided to close, and the company settles up before it is deleted. It is not a warning sign in the way bankruptcy is — a perfectly solid company may be wound up because its owners moved on — but it means the relationship has an end date.
Compulsory dissolution
Here it is not voluntary. The register has separate date fields for the reason: missing annual accounts, missing auditor, a defective board, no managing director. Missing accounts is the most common.
This says something beyond the dissolution itself. A company that has not filed accounts for some time has often stopped trading well before the register catches up with it.
Deleted
Finally the entity is deleted. At that point something worth knowing happens: the register keeps only the name, organisation number, legal form, former names and deletion date. Address, industry code, roles, capital — everything else disappears from the open API, and the roles endpoint stops answering.
That is why Overit keeps the last known picture of a company from before its deletion. If it was not captured then, it cannot be recovered afterwards.
What to do about it
Check the status before a first delivery, and again before large deliveries to a regular customer. It can change between two orders, and it does not change with any notice to suppliers.