text: During GITEX 2006, TDRA announced that the .ae ccTLD management and operations will be re-delegated to TDRA from Etisalat/UAEnic, the current .ae ccTLD manager. A new entity called .ae Domain Administration (.aeDA) has been formed to take care of management and operations of .ae based on latest DNS and Domain Registry technologies. During January 2008, IANA officially re-delegated the .ae Domain to the TDRA.
  On 3 August 2008, the .aeDA took over the DNS and launched their services with the new registry system which supports registry–registrar model. Currently the .aeDA has accredited eight registrars from different parts of the world. For the first time, Internet users in the UAE will be able to register and manage their domain names under .ae automatically using an online system without going through manual process which used to take up to six weeks for domain registrations. As per .aeDA policies, current domain holders are allowed to transfer between registrars at no cost.
  The .ae is the first ccTLD in the Arab region to use the standard Registry-Registrar model and .aeDA is the first registry in the region to use the industry-standard Extensible Provisioning Protocol to manage its domains.
  Accredited registrars
  As of 6 December 2020, there are 22 accredited registrars:
  Lexsynergy
  Etisalat
  Du
  Ascio
  Instra Corporation
  Mark Monitor
  Corporation Service Company (Singapore)
  BUZINESSWARE
  AEserver
  InterNetworX
  CPS-Datensysteme
  Safenames
  Internetx
  101Domain
  Host Arabia t/a Tasjeel.ae
  Abu-Ghazaleh
  Marcaria
  BB-Online
  DREAMSCAPE
  EPAG