Guides

Buying guides

• How to buy a domain name in the UAE

  Registering a domain from the UAE involves two decisions that are easy to get wrong: which extension carries the business, and which registrar you are willing to be billed by for the next decade.

• .com or .ae — choosing the extension for a UAE business

  The choice between .com and .ae is a positioning decision with a price tag attached. Here is how the two extensions differ in cost, signal and practical constraints.

• Transferring a domain without losing a single day

  Transferring a domain is how you escape an expensive renewal. Done in the wrong order, it is also how sites go dark for a day. The sequence matters more than the registrar you choose.