Qatar’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has started issuing an e-commerce license that lets a business register and trade entirely through its own website, which wasn’t possible before because a commercial registration required physical premises and a signed lease. The license covers 194 activities, among them fashion design, consulting, digital design, AI consulting and solutions, and translation, and costs QR500 through the Single Window platform. Holding it is also mandatory, so selling through a website without one is no longer allowed. Licensed businesses have to run on a domain ending in .qa or .com.qa, registered through one of eight providers that the Communications Regulatory Authority regulates.
