Saudi Arabia uses .sa, .com.sa, .السعودية, which requires a local presence to register. Below: who operates each namespace, what its rules actually constrain, the accredited local registrars, and how global registrars compare on price where we hold a sourced figure.
Of the 6 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, none printed a .sa price together with its currency and tax treatment, so no local registrar is ranked; each is listed below with what its page showed. SaudiNIC accredits 7 registrars to sell .sa; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .sa in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Saudi Arabia, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC), Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST)
These 7 companies are accredited by the Saudi Arabia registry to sell .sa, .السعودية. Every column is a fact the registry publishes, read from its accredited-registrar list on 2026-09-29. Listed in the registry's own order.
Registrars accredited by Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC), Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST), with website and whether the registry lists each as supporting DNSSEC. No prices and no scores: none of these registrars has been tested by this site.
0 of 7 are listed by the registry as supporting DNSSEC. “Not published” means the registry does not list that registrar as supporting it, which is not the same as the registrar not supporting it. We have not tested any of these registrars, so nothing here carries a price, a score or a ranking. Comparing them on price and service is work we have not done, and saying which is better would be invention.
Which registrars have a Arabic site, bill in SAR and sell .sa?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in Saudi Arabia rather than merely to the world from it: an interface in an official language, billing in the local currency, and selling the local namespace. All three must hold. No registrar we track currently meets all three here.
The English storefront was read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefronts were read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Bills in USD only. "All prices are in USD" is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, so this is a recorded 'no' on every non-USD currency rather than an absence.
The English storefronts were read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Bills in USD only. "All pricing is per year and in USD." is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, as Porkbun's is; recorded as a 'no' on every non-USD currency.
The English storefront was read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The French and English and Spanish storefronts were read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English and French and Spanish and Portuguese and Turkish and Ukrainian and Italian and Hungarian and Polish and Czech and Slovak and Croatian and Greek and Indonesian and Swedish and Danish and Finnish storefronts were read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Read billing in EUR and PKR and BRL and ARS and COP and TRY and INR and UAH and PLN and CZK and IDR and PHP and SEK and DKK; SAR has not been established either way.
The German and English and Italian storefronts were read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Offers SAR in a currency selector, but whether the card is charged in SAR or in USD after a conversion is not established. Thirteen currencies in the selector (AU$, R$, CA$, ¥, €, £, ₹, MX$, ₱, ﷼, ฿, ₺, USD $). Whether the card is charged in the selected currency is not established by the page, so none passes the currency condition.
The French and Dutch and German and English and Spanish and Portuguese and Italian and Polish storefronts were read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and Arabic was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
No registrar tracked here is recorded as selling .sa.
Nofails one condition
A dash is ignorance, not a failing grade: it means we have not established that condition either way. Several registrars render their language and currency switchers in JavaScript, which the read behind this table cannot see, so we record nothing rather than a false “no”. A currency that appears only in a display selector does not count as billing in that currency, because a converted price charged in dollars is exactly the case this condition exists to catch.
Where to buy a .sa: SaudiNIC-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
SaudiNIC's registrar page lists six licensed retail registrars plus DGA for government domains; all six storefronts were opened. Only DNet printed a .sa price table, with the currency as a riyal glyph and no VAT wording; T2 shows prices only after a search and Sahabah's page rendered no text. Sahara Net, Solutions and NourNet returned HTTP 502 through the proxy on two attempts, and GoDaddy's Saudi site could not be reached, so no Saudi storefront could be ranked.
Ordered by the standing .sa price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-29: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 15% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
Read, not ranked
A local-language storefront, but no .sa price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
DDNetThe .sa row's cells extract as "69 99 6999" without separators, so the registration figure cannot be read with certainty, and the page states no VAT treatment (15% in Saudi Arabia).
SSouq T2No .sa price printed on the pages read; prices appear only after a search the site runs by form, not by a results URL.
Not read on 2026-09-29: Sahabah Cloud (The domain service page (Arabic and English) loaded with status 200 but rendered no visible text in the browser. Nothing read.); Sahara Net (HTTP 502 upstream request failed on two attempts. Nothing read.); Solutions by STC (HTTP 502 upstream request failed on two attempts. Nothing read.); NourNet (HTTP 502 upstream request failed on two attempts (nour.net.sa redirects to www.nournet.sa). Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in Saudi Arabia
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in Saudi Arabia.
No registrar we track is recorded as selling .sa at all, so the namespace condition fails before language or currency is reached.
For .sa itself, the registry’s own accredited registrars are the route, and they are listed on this page above. We have not tested them, so we name them rather than rank them.
does not bill in SAR; does not sell .sa; no Arabic-language storefront established
Verified .com renewal of $11.08. Not the cheapest .com we verify: Spaceship renews at $10.18, 9% less. Porkbun is the pick here for catalogue breadth, not for price. WHOIS privacy: free, included by default.
Buying a gTLD through an English-language registrar that bills in dollars is a real and common choice, so it is named with the trade stated rather than dropped. It is not a recommendation in Saudi Arabia: the conditions it misses are in the column above.
Business use, globally
Namecheap
Support channels: 24/7 live chat, ticket support, knowledge base.
Developers, globally
Cloudflare Registrar
Industry-leading anycast DNS with deep developer tooling. Public API documented.
These two are the site’s global picks and are the same on every country page, which is why they are labelled globally and sit outside the table above. Nothing about a registrar’s API or its support channels changes at a border; what does change is language, billing currency and whether it can sell the local namespace, and that is what the eligibility table measures.
Policy authority: SaudiNIC, Communications, Space and Technology Commission
Local presence: Yes. Eligible applicants are entities holding a registration or licence issued by a Saudi authority, or owners of a trademark or trade name registered in Saudi Arabia. The registrant must prove the relationship between itself and the requested name, and the administrative contact's details must be complete, accurate and local to Saudi Arabia.
DNSSEC: Signed at the root
IDN: .السعودية (punycode .xn--mgberp4a5d4ar) is delegated separately as Saudi Arabia's Arabic-script ccTLD.
New registrations run only through licensed registrars. Registration terms run from one to ten years. Names under med.sa, org.sa, sch.sa and edu.sa, and any reserved name, require explicit SaudiNIC approval, and SaudiNIC may review any request before or after completion.
Purpose: Saudi Arabia's country code, tied to Saudi legal registration or a Saudi trademark.
Eligibility: Restricted. Applicants must hold a registration or licence issued by a Saudi authority, or own a trademark or trade name registered in Saudi Arabia, and must prove the relationship between themselves and the requested name. Administrative contact details must be local to Saudi Arabia.
Tracked registrars that sell .sa
None of the registrars we track sell .sa at retail: see the local registrar list below.
SaudiNIC operates the registry under the Communications, Space and Technology Commission. Registration terms run from one to ten years. Requests under med.sa, org.sa, sch.sa and edu.sa, and any reserved name, need explicit SaudiNIC approval.
.com.sa
Last checked 2026-08-19
Purpose: Commercial third level, the standard identity for a Saudi company.
Eligibility: Same eligibility regime as .sa: Saudi registration or licence, or a Saudi-registered mark, plus proof of the name relationship.
Tracked registrars that sell .com.sa
None of the registrars we track sell .com.sa at retail: see the local registrar list below.
Not sold by any registrar we track. New registrations go through SaudiNIC licensed registrars.
Namespace map
What you can register under .sa
The Public Suffix List records 8 registrable namespaces under .sa.
Registrable namespaces under .sa from the Public Suffix List, with which of the registrars this site tracks sell each one and the cheapest renewal price we have verified.
Namespace
.com.sa
.edu.sa
.gov.sa
.med.sa
.net.sa
.org.sa
.pub.sa
.sch.sa
Operator: Communications, Space and Technology Commission · .sa signed in the root zone (2026-09-28)
Registered directly under the root label
The Public Suffix List records no delegated second-level namespaces under this delegation: a name is registered directly under the root label, at the second level, rather than under a category such as co. or org.
.السعودية.xn--mgberp4a5d4arCommunications, Space and Technology Commissionsigned in the root zone
Verified and sample pricing per registrar for this TLD, with first-year, renewal, ten-year cost and the date each figure was checked
Registrar
First-year
Renewal
10-year cost
WHOIS privacy
Last checked
(verified price)
Spaceship
$9.08
$10.18
$100.70
Free
2026-09-02
(verified price)
Dynadot
$10.88
$10.88
$108.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Porkbun
$11.08
$11.08
$110.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
OVHcloud
$9.20
$14.69
$141.41
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
AAmazon Route 53
$16.00
$16.00
$160.00
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-29
(verified price)
NNameSilo
$17.29
$17.29
$172.90
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Namecheap
$11.28
$18.48
$177.60
Free, with exceptions
2026-08-19
(verified price)
Hover
$18.99
$18.99
$189.90
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
(verified price)
NName.com
$12.99
$19.99
$192.90
Available (Whois Privacy) o…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
IONOS
$1.00
$20.00
$181.00
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-29
(verified price)
Gandi
$11.00
$38.38
$356.42
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
Compared across the 11 registrars whose .com price we have read ourselves.
Most global registrars price domains in USD; local registrars often invoice in SAR.
Can a registrar we track handle Saudi Arabia?
No registrar whose prices we verify sells any of the ccTLDs on this page, so a local or specialist registrar is the only route to them. A global registrar can still hold the .com, which renews from $10.18 at the cheapest seller we verify: many owners here run both.
Saudi Arabia ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
ccTLD
Sellers we verify
Cheapest verified renewal
vs cheapest .com
.sa
0
Local registrar only
-No value recorded
.com.sa
0
Local registrar only
-No value recorded
Renewals are all-in and per year, at the cheapest registrar we verify for that extension, checked 2026-09-29. The .com reference is the cheapest verified .com renewal ($10.18). "Listed" counts registrars our country notes record as selling the extension without a price we have read ourselves.
What this page does not tell you: how the registrars based in Saudi Arabia compare. We list 7 of them by name only, no prices, no scores, no hands-on testing, so any claim here that a local registrar is cheaper, better supported or easier to pay would be invention. Where local billing in Saudi Riyal (SAR), local-language support, or a registry rule requires a local registrar, that is a reason to use one, and comparing them is work we have not done. Saudi Arabia also applies a local-presence or nexus requirement to at least one of its ccTLDs: see the registry rules above before assuming eligibility.
FAQ
What is the best domain registrar in Saudi Arabia?+
Of the 6 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, none printed a .sa price together with its currency and tax treatment, so no local registrar is ranked; each is listed below with what its page showed. SaudiNIC accredits 7 registrars to sell .sa; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .sa in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Saudi Arabia, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .sa domain?+
Yes. Eligible applicants are entities holding a registration or licence issued by a Saudi authority, or owners of a trademark or trade name registered in Saudi Arabia. The registrant must prove the relationship between itself and the requested name, and the administrative contact's details must be complete, accurate and local to Saudi Arabia.
Which global registrars sell .sa?+
None of the registrars we track sell .sa at retail. SaudiNIC operates the registry under the Communications, Space and Technology Commission. Registration terms run from one to ten years. Requests under med.sa, org.sa, sch.sa and edu.sa, and any reserved name, need explicit SaudiNIC approval.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in Saudi Arabia?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in Saudi Riyal (SAR). Saudi registrars invoice in riyal with Saudi VAT. Global registrars bill in USD; Saudi cards generally work for gTLDs.
What payment methods work in Saudi Arabia?+
Saudi registrars invoice in riyal with Saudi VAT. Global registrars bill in USD; Saudi cards generally work for gTLDs.
