.ae
Most people believe a .ae requires a UAE trade licence. It does not. Under the .aeDA registry policy, .ae is unrestricted — any individual or company, anywhere, can register one. The requirement people are thinking of applies to .co.ae, a different extension with different rules. NamePo registers .ae with both the registration and the renewal price on the table before you pay.
We check.com,.co.uk,.ai,.io,.net, and.org in one search — same availability as our billing system.
We check.com,.co.uk,.ai,.io,.net, and.org in one search — same availability as our billing system.
.ae is the country-code extension for the United Arab Emirates, operated by the .aeDA registry under the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority. Its registration policy places no eligibility restriction on .ae itself: you do not need a UAE trade licence, a free-zone establishment, a local partner, or a registered UAE trademark to hold one. The trade-licence requirement that circulates in most advice online belongs to .co.ae, a separate second-level extension governed by stricter criteria. If your goal is a UAE-facing web address for a business trading into the Emirates, .ae is the one that is open to you.
The .ae renewal price is higher than the first-year registration price. We are stating that plainly rather than burying it, because the gap between an advertised first-year rate and the real ongoing cost is the single most common complaint about domain purchasing. Both figures appear on this page and again in your cart before payment.
Registration (first year)
$44
Renewal (per year)
$55
Prices from live catalogue
NamePo currently offers .ae on a one-year registration and renewal term. The .aeDA registry permits longer terms of up to five years; if you need a multi-year registration, contact support and we will arrange it directly.
WHOIS privacy is not available on .ae. The .aeDA registry collects and publishes registrant contact information as a matter of policy, and no registrar can override that. This differs from .com, .co.uk and most generic extensions, where privacy can be enabled. If public registrant data is a concern for your organisation, factor it into the decision before you register — using a company address and a role-based contact email rather than personal details is the usual approach.
Every .ae at NamePo includes full DNS management, registrar lock, optional auto-renewal you can switch off at any time, and email forwarding, in the same account as your hosting — with USD billing, which matters for teams operating across the Gulf and invoicing internationally.
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