United Arab Emirates uses .ae, open to registrants worldwide. 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 10 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, AEserver prints the lowest standing .ae price: AED 152.25 incl. VAT, computed from AED 145.00 ex. VAT; AED 125.00 first year, then tasjeel.ae at AED 152.25 incl. VAT, computed from AED 145.00 ex. VAT; AED 129.00 first year. .aeDA accredits 28 registrars to sell .ae; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .ae in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in the United Arab Emirates, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by .ae Domain Administration (.aeDA), Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA)
These 28 companies are accredited by the United Arab Emirates registry to sell .ae. 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 .ae Domain Administration (.aeDA), Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), 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 28 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 AED and sell .ae?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in United Arab Emirates 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; AED 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".
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".
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 .ae: .aeDA-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
Ten storefronts from the .aeDA accredited registrar list (TDRA page, read today) were opened: the seven UAE local registrars plus Dreamscape (Crazy Domains UAE), Dynadot and Name.com. AEserver and tasjeel.ae print .ae in dirhams with VAT stated as excluded; e& (nic.ae) prints AED 150 with no tax wording; Gate Hills and Dynadot price in US dollars. du rendered no content, Buzinessware rendered no text, Crazy Domains returned a 403 bot wall and GoDaddy's UAE site (not on the list) returned 403.
Ordered by the standing .ae 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 5% 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.
Ordered by the standing .ae 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 5% 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 .ae price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
Ee& enterprise (nic.ae)The storefront prints .ae at AED 150 but states no VAT treatment on the page read, so whether 150 includes the 5% UAE VAT is not established.
Ggatehills.comThe page read prices .ae in US dollars (USD 32.67 / year), not dirhams, and states no VAT treatment.
DDynadotThe page prices .ae in US dollars, not dirhams, and states no VAT treatment.
NName.comThe page says .ae is pending release and prints no .ae price.
Not read on 2026-09-29: du (The domain-names address tried returned Not Found; the business page rendered only "Loading content...". Nothing read.); Buzinessware (The .ae page redirected to /lowest-price-domains and rendered no visible text in the browser; the homepage read shows no .ae price. Nothing priced.); Crazy Domains UAE (HTTP 403 "Just a moment..." bot wall on the .ae page and on the homepage. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in United Arab Emirates
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in United Arab Emirates.
Gandi, IONOS sell .ae, but none of them has been established to bill in AED or to run a Arabic-language storefront. Where we have simply not checked, the table above says so rather than counting it against them.
For .ae 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.
Global option for buying a .com from United Arab Emirates
does not bill in AED; does not sell .ae; 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 United Arab Emirates: 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.
Local presence: Open in principle; some registrations may require UAE registrant documentation.
DNSSEC: Not signed at the root: the root carries only the NSEC and RRSIG that prove no DS exists, so a .ae domain has no chain of trust to validate against whatever the registry offers at the second level.
IDN: Supported (Arabic, .امارات IDN)
Registered through aeDA-accredited registrars listed at nic.ae.
Pricing fetched from each registrar's own pricing page on the date shown. Local registrars may bill in AED and add VAT/GST/sales tax on top.
Registered through aeDA-accredited registrars listed at nic.ae. Registration is at the second level directly under .ae, which is the unrestricted zone. The registry also operates restricted third-level zones including co.ae for locally registered commercial companies, which require business documentation; co.ae is not the mainstream path and this site does not track its pricing. There is no com.ae: it appears in neither half of the Public Suffix List.
Namespace map
What you can register under .ae
The Public Suffix List records 7 registrable namespaces under .ae.
Registrable namespaces under .ae 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
.ac.ae
.co.ae
.gov.ae
.mil.ae
.net.ae
.org.ae
.sch.ae
Operator: Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) · .ae not 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.
.امارات.xn--mgbaam7a8hTelecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA)not signed 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 AED.
Can a registrar we track handle United Arab Emirates?
.ae is sold by 2 of the registrars whose prices we verify, renewing from $60.00: more than the cheapest verified .com at $10.18.
At $60.00 a year, .ae is 278th of 295 by price among the extensions we verify: $49.82 more than the cheapest verified .com. The local extension is a premium here, not a saving.
United Arab Emirates ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
ccTLD
Sellers we verify
Cheapest verified renewal
vs cheapest .com
.ae
2
$60.00
+$49.82
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 the United Arab Emirates compare. We list 28 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 UAE Dirham (AED), 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.
FAQ
What is the best domain registrar in United Arab Emirates?+
Of the 10 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, AEserver prints the lowest standing .ae price: AED 152.25 incl. VAT, computed from AED 145.00 ex. VAT; AED 125.00 first year, then tasjeel.ae at AED 152.25 incl. VAT, computed from AED 145.00 ex. VAT; AED 129.00 first year. .aeDA accredits 28 registrars to sell .ae; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .ae in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in the United Arab Emirates, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .ae domain?+
Open in principle; some registrations may require UAE registrant documentation.
Which global registrars sell .ae?+
Gandi, IONOS. Registered through aeDA-accredited registrars listed at nic.ae. Registration is at the second level directly under .ae, which is the unrestricted zone. The registry also operates restricted third-level zones including co.ae for locally registered commercial companies, which require business documentation; co.ae is not the mainstream path and this site does not track its pricing. There is no com.ae: it appears in neither half of the Public Suffix List.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in United Arab Emirates?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in UAE Dirham (AED). Local aeDA (TDRA) registrars bill in AED. A .com bought at Porkbun, Cloudflare, or Namecheap is billed in USD.
What payment methods work in United Arab Emirates?+
Local aeDA (TDRA) registrars bill in AED. A .com bought at Porkbun, Cloudflare, or Namecheap is billed in USD.
