Quoting a client from a personal Gmail address undermines everything else you have spent money on — the licence, the branding, the website. Business email on your own domain is usually the cheapest credibility upgrade available to a new UAE company.
Before you start
You need a registered domain name and access to its DNS settings, normally through whoever you bought the domain from. That is the only prerequisite.
The steps
- Choose a provider. Compare per-user cost across your whole team, not the headline price for one mailbox.
- Verify your domain. The provider gives you a verification record to add to your DNS.
- Point your mail records. Update the MX records so mail for your domain is delivered to the new provider.
- Add authentication records. SPF, DKIM and DMARC records tell receiving servers your mail is legitimate. Skipping these is why business email lands in spam.
- Create your mailboxes. Personal addresses for staff, plus shared ones such as info@ and sales@.
- Migrate old mail if you are moving from another provider.
Mailbox structure worth getting right early
Shared addresses like info@ become a problem once more than one person answers them — replies get duplicated or missed entirely. Decide early whether a shared inbox tool is needed rather than forwarding to several people.
Zoho Mail handles this — ad-free business email on your own domain — private by design. Try it free.
Zoho Workplace handles this — email, docs, chat and meetings — a full office suite at a fraction of the usual cost. Try it free.
Zoho TeamInbox handles this — shared inboxes done right — who owns which email, finally clear. Try it free.
Zoho Mail offers a free tier for small teams with no ads and no inbox scanning. Zoho Workplace adds the document suite, storage, chat and meetings. Zoho TeamInbox solves the shared info@ ownership problem specifically.
See also our guide to business email and collaboration tools, and the software checklist for a new UAE business.
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