A domain is usually chosen in five minutes and lived with for years. In the .uz zone that decision deserves a little more attention: the registration rules, what becomes public, and how renewal works all differ from the international zones you may be used to.
What it costs
Registration in the .uz zone is sold by the year, and registrar price lists put a year at roughly 45,000 so'm, with each additional year adding the same again. Check the exact figure with your registrar on the day — it moves, and registrars differ.
Hosting is a separate line item. A domain and hosting are different things often sold together: the domain is the address, the hosting is where the files sit. You can buy them from different companies, and sometimes that is cheaper.
What becomes public
This is the surprise for anyone who has only registered international domains. The details you give at registration end up in the public whois service. Anyone can type your domain in and see who it is registered to and what contacts were provided.
The practical conclusion is simple: give the contacts you publish on the site anyway. A work address, not a personal one. A work number, not the one your family calls. In international zones this information is often hidden behind a privacy service — do not count on that here.
How registration goes
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Check the name is free.
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Submit a request to a registrar with the owner's details.
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The registrar checks the details and issues an invoice.
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After payment the domain goes to the zone administration for activation.
Time passes between paying and having a working domain — this is not the instant operation .com is. Plan the launch with room to spare, not for the same day.
.uz or .com
There is no single answer, but the fork is clear.
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.uz if your customers are inside the country. It reads as "a local company", and for local trust that works.
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.com if you export or plan to. A foreign buyer treats .com as neutral, and an unfamiliar country zone as a reason to look twice.
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Both works, but only if one is the main one and the other redirects to it. Two identical sites on two domains are two competitors to each other in search.
What not to do
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Register the domain in the contractor's name. The owner should be you. Changing supplier should not turn into a discussion about whose address it is.
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Lose access to the mailbox given at registration. Every renewal notice goes there.
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Rely on auto-renewal without checking it. A domain can be lost even with the invoice paid — there is a separate piece on the blog about that.
A short checklist
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The owner is you or your company, not the contractor.
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The contacts on the request are publishable ones, not personal.
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The owner's mailbox is reachable and somebody reads it.
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The renewal date is written somewhere you will see it.
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If there are two domains, it is decided which one is primary.
If you already have a domain but no site on it yet, we can look at how it is configured and say what needs fixing before launch.
