Precondition:
Applicant is requested to read SaudiNIC regulations . By submitting the Domain Name Registration Form to SaudiNIC, Applicant confirms that he has read, understood and accepted all the terms and conditions in the regulations document.

Registration steps: (click on the steps to get more information)
STEP 1: Check if the domain name is available with SaudiNIC whois

Domain names are becoming "hot" property - as in *theft* for resale. More and more companies are finding they cannot get their trademarked names as a domain name because so few good names are left. But sometimes it's outright extortion as when a Fortune 500 company name is reserved by someone that has no intention of developing a site under the domain, but simply "parks" it somewhere and waits to be contacted by the big boys to purchase the name for astronomical fees.

A more lucrative market for domain names exists in short, memorable generic names like Loans.com or Homes.com which can apply to an entire industry as can be seen in recent news.

One of the lesser known and more frustrating issues is when a small business name or new product domain name is reserved by someone hoping to make a buck or two. Here's a question faced by small business owners getting started online.

This example is for www.godaddy.com registration (our favorite low price registrant). However, the concepts for domain registration are basically the same. It's really easy to register a domain - there are many registration sites that charge less than $10/year for each domain. However, watch out - because most will try to entice you into a bunch of extra's during registration. And you can quickly get back to the high prices charged by Networksolutions.com and Register.com (i.e. $35 /year for each domain - which is a 'ripe off' IMHO).

However, the BIGGEST tip you'll ever get for domain registration is : DO NOT let your web host register for you. Many will offer to register the domain for free when you sign up. That is an underhanded trick to make sure it'll be more difficult for you change web host in the future. In other words, if you want to change web host - you have to try to get the web host (or web master) to make the NS (DNS) name server changes. And they will then try to convince you to remain with their service (or worst yet - they may drag their feet and not allow you to move your page immediately. And of course, they will want to continue to be the registrant for your domain - but then they will tell you that it's going to cost you $35/year (or they will try to convince you that you have to sign up for 3 years at a discount of $100 (again much more than the $9/year at godaddy and a lot of other domain registrant).

The following FAQs provide detailed information on registering domain names with Hostway, transferring registrations from your current registrar to Hostway and using the services and features included with Hostway's domain name registrations.

For more general information on domain names and the domain name registration and transfer processes, see the