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A domain name looks like a single purchase and behaves like three. There is the registration — the annual right to the name. There is the DNS zone — the records that decide where the name actually sends people, and which quietly control your website, your email deliverability and half of your security posture. And there is the certificate that stops browsers warning your customers away.
Most Saudi companies end up with those three jobs at three suppliers, discovered separately over several years: a name at a registrar somebody once had an account with, DNS wherever the last web developer preferred, and a certificate someone renews manually every year and occasionally forgets. The failure is never dramatic. It is a mail record that was never added, a certificate that expired on a Friday, or a renewal notice sent to an employee who left.
Skyline puts all three in the console you already use for servers and mailboxes, priced in SAR and invoiced locally. That is the entire pitch — not that DNS is exciting, but that it should stop being a scavenger hunt.
One search produces a set of names that differ only by their ending, their availability and their price — so the results are drawn as a comparison board rather than a list. The exact match you asked for gets a card of its own; every other ending sits beside it with a price bar scaled from the real figures the registrar returned. Availability is carried by colour and a glyph and the bar treatment, so the page still reads correctly in greyscale or with colour-blindness.
Everything on that screen comes from the server: availability, price and the premium flag are looked up live, cached briefly, and never estimated in the browser. Names go into a cart, checkout collects the WHOIS registrant contact the registry requires, and payment comes from your Skyline wallet in SAR.
A registrar's dashboard tells you a lot about the registrar. Here is what a Skyline domain page gives you, per name, each posting to the registrar and re-rendering with the state the registrar reports back:
| Control | What it does | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Transfer lock | Blocks the name from being moved to another registrar | The single most effective defence against a domain being taken from you |
| WHOIS privacy | Hides the registrant details in public WHOIS | Fewer cold calls, fewer fake renewal invoices, less spear-phishing material |
| Auto-renew | Renews from your wallet without a human | Expiry is the most common way a business loses a domain it still wants |
| Nameservers | Sets where authoritative DNS for the name lives | Lets you move DNS in or out without moving the registration |
| EPP / auth code | Issues the code needed to transfer the name away | You can leave. A registrar that hides this is telling you something |
The list view is deliberately blunt about the difference between the two kinds of domain you own. Names registered through Skyline carry expiry, auto-renew and privacy. Names registered elsewhere and added here carry DNS only. They are grouped separately — because the available actions genuinely differ — and shown with equal visual weight, because to you they are equally yours.
The zone editor handles A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV and CAA records, each with its own TTL in seconds (1800 by default), with @ meaning the domain root, and with search across hostnames and values for zones that have grown past what anyone can scan by eye. Deleting a zone requires typing its name back — a small friction in exactly the right place.
Around that raw form sit the guided paths, because a text field is a poor way to answer "what are you setting up?":
SSL is managed over ACME with DNS validation, which means a certificate can be issued for a name before that name points anywhere, and without taking a live site offline for an HTTP challenge. The console creates the certificate, tracks the pending validation, shows the exact challenge string on the domain's page, renews on schedule and lets you download the certificate when you need it elsewhere. Nobody has to remember a date.
You do not have to transfer a registration to use Skyline, and we would rather you did not do it by accident. Adding a domain you own is a page, not a modal, because it carries a real decision: keep DNS at your current provider, or hand DNS to Skyline. Each step shows its own consequence and a rail states what happens next, so nobody submits without knowing what is about to change — and it ends by naming the work you will have to do at your registrar.
Once the name is known to Skyline you can attach it to a hosting site or to one of your own servers, and the domain page tracks verification as it progresses rather than making you refresh and guess.
Where this fits with the rest of the platform: cloud servers and VPS are what an A record usually points at, business email is what the MX records are for, Skyline Comms is the phone system on the same account, Skyline Drive holds the files, and data residency in Saudi Arabia covers the residency questions that tend to arrive with the compliance review.
The search checks whatever name you type, and by default also compares it across a set of common endings — .com, .net, .org, .io, .sa and .dev among them. Rather than print a list here that could go stale, we let the live search answer: availability, whether a name is flagged premium, and its price all come from the registrar at the moment you search. If an ending cannot be registered through us, the search says so instead of taking your money.
Retail price is the registrar's wholesale cost plus a fixed markup, converted to Saudi riyals, and the platform will never show or bill a domain below wholesale. You pay from your Skyline wallet, in SAR, and invoices are issued as ZATCA Phase 2 e-invoices. Current per-ending prices appear in the search results themselves — they are computed from live figures, not typed into a marketing page.
Yes, and this is one of the most-used paths. Add a domain you already own and choose one of two modes: keep DNS where it is (you just want the name known to Skyline so it can be attached to hosting or a server), or move DNS to Skyline (you get a zone here and change the nameservers at your current registrar). The flow tells you exactly what you will have to do at the other provider before you submit, rather than after.
A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV and CAA, edited per record with its own TTL in seconds — the default is 1800 — and @ meaning the domain root. Alongside the raw record form there are guided paths for the things people get wrong: pointing a name at one of your own hosting sites without having to look up an IP address, pointing it at one of your own servers, and adding a mail provider's records in one step.
No. Choosing a mail provider in the zone editor adds the MX, SPF, DMARC and autodiscover records together, so a domain starts life able to send and receive mail properly instead of accumulating half a mail configuration. There is also a Saudi / NCA profile that sets per-domain DMARC reporting, and a separate control to promote DMARC from monitoring to enforcement once you have watched the reports for a while — which is the correct order to do it in.
Certificates are managed for you over ACME with DNS validation, so a certificate can be issued for a name before it points anywhere and without taking a site down for an HTTP challenge. The console tracks pending validations, issues, renews and lets you download the certificate. If a validation record is needed, the console shows the exact challenge string on the domain's page.
Per domain: registrar transfer lock, WHOIS privacy, auto-renew, nameservers, manual renewal, and the EPP authorisation code you need in order to transfer the name away. That last one matters: a registrar that makes leaving difficult is telling you something. Every control posts to the registrar and the page re-renders with the state the registrar reports back, not with an optimistic guess.
Both cohorts a customer thinks of as "my domains" — names registered through Skyline, which carry expiry, auto-renew and privacy, and names registered elsewhere and added here, which carry DNS only. They are grouped separately because the actions genuinely differ, but given equal weight because to you they are equally yours. Per domain the list answers, without a click: when it expires and how close that is, whether auto-renew, transfer lock and WHOIS privacy are on, where its DNS actually lives, how many mailboxes it carries, and which of the five mail records are live.
Search a name, hold the transfer lock, edit the zone, and let the certificate renew itself — from one Saudi console, billed in SAR, supported in Arabic or English.
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