Describe your business once and WebNewBiz builds the website, the online store and the customer records that go with it. Our office is in Karachi, so there is someone here to talk to.
Plenty of good businesses in Pakistan still have no website. Not because owners do not see the point, but because the usual route is slow and uncertain: find a developer, agree a price, wait weeks, and hope the result is something you can update yourself afterwards. Meanwhile the enquiries keep arriving through WhatsApp and Instagram, where they are almost impossible to keep track of. WebNewBiz exists to shorten that route — you describe the business in your own words, and the AI produces a real site you can edit, publish and grow from.
Small and medium businesses anywhere in Pakistan — Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Peshawar or a town that no agency has ever called. Traders and distributors who need a credible page to send to buyers. Clinics, tutors, salons and workshops that want enquiries to arrive somewhere organised. Retailers who already sell through social media and want a proper shop with a checkout of their own.
If you have never built a website before, that is the normal starting point here. Nothing on the platform assumes you can code, and nothing asks you to choose hosting, plugins or a server.
The point of building with AI is not only speed — it is that the pieces arrive already connected to each other.
Most people who look up a Pakistani business are doing it on a mid-range Android phone, on mobile data, often outside an office. That has two practical consequences, and they matter more than any design decision.
The first is speed. A page that takes several seconds to appear loses the visitor before a search engine ever gets the chance to rank it. The Website Booster handles image compression, caching and delivery so pages stay quick on a slow connection. The second is that phone numbers and WhatsApp-style contact matter as much as forms — a visitor who wants to call should never have to hunt for the number.
A .com or a .pk name that is easy to say over the phone does more for credibility than any amount of design. You can search for one and connect it on the domains page, and once it is yours, use an address on that domain for enquiries. A reply from a proper business address reads differently from one sent by free webmail, and it costs nothing extra to set up.
The domain is the one decision on this list you cannot quietly change your mind about later. Pages get rewritten, logos get redrawn, prices move — but a name already printed on your packaging, saved in customers' phones and linked to from other websites is expensive to abandon. PKNIC, the body that administers .pk names, is blunt about it: once a domain has been registered, its name cannot be modified. You do not rename a domain; you register a second one and start again. So it is worth spending an evening on the name rather than ten minutes.
Say it out loud before you register it.
The real test of a domain name here is not how it looks in a browser — it is whether you can give it to someone over a phone call, in Urdu or English, without spelling it twice. The names that fail that test share the same handful of features: hyphens nobody hears, numbers that could be digits or words, doubled letters, and spellings that are ambiguous when read aloud. If you find yourself saying "with a dash in the middle", pick something else.
What the registry will and will not allow.
PKNIC's own guidance is that "in principle, you are free to choose the domain name", but that you "cannot choose names that are in use by other organizations, or names that for various reasons are prohibited or reserved for technical, ethical or national considerations". There are mechanical limits too — a name cannot begin with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens, and some very short names and reserved words are held back — so confirm the exact name is available and accepted before it goes on a signboard, a business card or a delivery box.
You do not have to be in Pakistan to hold a .pk name.
This surprises people on both sides of it. PKNIC's policy says plainly that "there is no requirement for the domain registrant to have any local presence and no Admin contact needs to be present in Pakistan". The CNIC or NTN copy a reseller asks you for is usually that reseller's own customer check rather than a registry rule. The restricted namespaces are a different matter: edu.pk and gov.pk really are limited to institutions that can prove what they are, and are reviewed before they are switched on.
Registering a name does not settle who owns it.
This is the part that costs businesses the most and gets written down the least. PKNIC states that "no adjudication is made within the registration function as to whether the applicant has a legitimate right to a name" — the registry takes your fee, it does not check your claim — and it puts the duty back on you: "You also have a duty to ensure that your registration of a domain name does not infringe another party's right to the same name. Remember that the responsibility always rests with you."
If someone does contest the name, it is settled by binding arbitration through the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center under a policy based on ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, and PKNIC adds a Pakistan-specific condition: a claim to a trade name or copyright counts "only if it is registered with an official trade-name/copyright/patent office in Pakistan, or is recognized by the courts of law in Pakistan". In practice that means two things. Search the name properly — on Google, on Facebook and Instagram, and against registered trade marks — before you commit to it. And if the name is genuinely yours and you intend to build on it, registering the mark is what makes it defensible later.
Register it in the business's own name, and keep the email on it alive.
Whoever is listed on the registration is who the registry deals with. If a developer or a relative registers it "to save you the trouble", the name is theirs to move, and getting it back is a negotiation rather than a form. Ask for the registration to be in the business's name, with a contact address somebody will still be reading in three years. PKNIC is explicit that "as the domain name holder, you are responsible for keeping your contact information updated", and that not receiving a renewal reminder is not an accepted reason for paying late.
The renewal window is shorter than most people assume.
If the fee is not paid by the due date, PKNIC's stated policy is to de-activate the domain and then, "after a hold period of two weeks", offer it to anyone else for re-registration on a first-come, first-served basis. You can still pay and reactivate it during that hold — but two weeks is not long if the reminder went to an address nobody checks, and a name that has been taken by someone else is usually gone for good. Put the renewal date in a calendar, pay it early, and keep the billing address on the business rather than on a staff member who may move on.
For what a name actually costs at the registry and what resellers add on top, our guide to what a website costs in Pakistan in 2026 has the current figures. Once you have settled on a name you can search for it and connect it on the domains page, and the branding tools will build the logo and colours around it.
Being on the internet and being findable are two different jobs. Once the site is live, the SEO tools keep the titles, descriptions, structure and sitemap in order so search engines can understand what you do and where you do it.
Two things are worth doing yourself alongside that. Write the city and the areas you serve into your own copy, in the words a customer would use. And claim your free Google Business Profile — for a business that serves people in one city, it is often the single highest-return thing on the list, and it is the profile that puts you on the map results.
The profile itself is free and takes about a quarter of an hour to fill in. Getting it verified is where businesses here most often stall, so it helps to know how the process works before you begin.
Once it is verified, the profile earns its keep by being kept current: correct opening hours, a number somebody answers, photographs that are genuinely yours, and replies to reviews. Make sure the business name, address and phone number on the profile match your website's contact page word for word — details that disagree with each other are one of the quieter reasons local listings underperform.
Taking orders on your own site rather than through direct messages gives you something a social account never will: a record of every order, a stock count that updates itself, and pages that can appear in search. Set the store up with the products you actually have, connect the payment method you already use with your bank or provider, and be explicit on the page about delivery times and areas — unclear delivery information is the most common reason a Pakistani shopper abandons a cart.
Our customer portal gives repeat buyers their own login for orders and documents, which saves a great deal of back-and-forth once you have regulars.
Then you are further along than you think, and nothing here asks you to give that up. A website is not a replacement for a social account — it is the thing the social account points at. Keep posting, keep replying in the app your customers already use, and let the site do the jobs a feed was never designed for.
Three of those jobs come up in almost every conversation we have:
There is also a simpler argument. A social account is borrowed ground: it can be restricted, locked or lost, and the followers go with it. A domain you register is yours for as long as you renew it, and the site sitting on it is yours too. Registering a name on the domains page is the cheapest insurance in this list.
A sensible way to start is to build the site, put its link in your bio and in your WhatsApp business profile, and then send buyers to a product page instead of typing the price again. Your marketing tools can keep the posts going from the same place, so the site and the feed are not two separate chores. If you want the detail — exactly what a WhatsApp catalogue can and cannot do, taken from Meta's own documentation — our guide to starting an online store in Pakistan works through it.
Two decisions follow once the store is real. If you are weighing the big platforms, our Shopify vs WooCommerce comparison for Pakistan explains why neither platform's own payment service is available here and what that does to the running costs. And before you open a courier account, our guide to choosing a courier for your online store lists the terms worth settling in writing, from how fast cash-on-delivery money reaches you to who pays for returned parcels.
If your clients find you on Instagram and book on WhatsApp, a small site can hold the price list, the timings, your real work and a booking request form, so every new enquiry starts further along. Our guide to a salon website with online booking in Pakistan covers it, including photo consent, bridal bookings and Google Business Profile for a home-based salon.
If you sell your time as a coach, consultant, tutor or trainer, the site has one job: turn a referral into a booked first call. Say who you help, how sessions work and where fees start, and show your slots in Pakistan time, which is UTC+5 all year with no daylight saving, so clients in the UK or North America see a different gap in summer and winter. If you only work online, you will not qualify for a Google Business Profile, so the website does that work instead. Our coaching and consulting website guide covers the details.
A gym's website has to answer the questions members otherwise ask on WhatsApp all day: the ladies' and gents' timings, what a month costs, whether a class is full and how to book a trial. Our guide to a fitness studio website with class booking works through the timetable, membership terms and reminders.
A clinic's website has a particular job: to show patients who the doctors are, when each one sits and how to book, and to handle their details with care. Our guide to a clinic website with online appointment booking in Pakistan covers doctor profiles and PMDC registration numbers, booking requests and reminders, patient data, and setting up doctors on Google Business Profile.
If you already take orders through a delivery app, your website has a different job: to let regulars order from you directly. Our guide to a restaurant website with online ordering covers what to put on the menu page, how to take pickup and delivery orders yourself, and how to add your menu and ordering links to Google.
Current plans are on the pricing page, and you can start for $1 before deciding. If you are still comparing routes, our guide to what a small business website costs in Pakistan in 2026 sets out what freelancers and agencies charge, and the recurring costs — domain, hosting, maintenance — that rarely appear in the first quote. And if the real question is whether to pay anyone at all, hire a web developer, or build it yourself? walks through the four things that decide it.
Half an hour of preparation makes a noticeable difference to what the AI produces: knowing the one job the site has to do, a list of pages, real photographs, and a paragraph about the business in your own words. We wrote the whole list down in an AI website checklist. It is worth reading before you open the builder rather than after.
How much does it cost?
Plans are $29 a month for Starter, $79 for Growth, $149 for Pro and $199 for Ultimate. Prices are in US dollars, and every plan includes hosting, the AI website builder and a secure checkout, so there is no separate hosting bill to budget for. The current list is always on the pricing page.
How long before my website is live?
The first draft is generated in minutes from your description. After that, plan on an evening of your own work: replacing the draft wording with your own, adding real photographs, and checking every page on a phone before you publish.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You describe the business in plain words and edit the result in your browser. There is no server to rent, no hosting to configure and no plugins to choose.
Can I cancel at any time?
Yes. There is no cancellation fee and no minimum contract, and you can cancel from your dashboard or by emailing support@webnewbiz.com. Cancelling stops future payments rather than switching the service off straight away — you keep full access until the end of the period you have already paid for. If you are within seven days of a payment and would rather have it back, our refund policy explains what is covered, and the cancellation policy covers what happens to your site and your data afterwards.
Can I use my own domain, or a .pk name?
Yes. You can search for a name and connect it from the domains page, or point a domain you already own at your WebNewBiz site. A domain you register through us stays registered to you for the period you paid for, and you can move it to another provider through the normal transfer process.
Do you only work with businesses in Karachi?
No. The platform is online, so you can build and run your site from anywhere in Pakistan. Our office being in Karachi simply means there is a local number to call and someone in your own time zone when you need an answer — see the contact page.
I already sell on Instagram and WhatsApp. Do I still need a website?
You do not have to choose between them. Social accounts are good at reaching people who already follow you; a website is what someone who has never heard of you can find in a search, and it is where an order gets a number, a status and a stock count instead of scrolling away in a chat. Most businesses here keep both and simply point the bio at the site.
Can I get my business on Google Maps if I only trade online?
No. A Google Business Profile needs either premises customers can visit or a service area you travel out to, so a business that exists purely on the internet is not eligible. If that describes you, put the effort into your own site's pages and the words customers would actually search for instead.
How long does Google Business Profile verification take?
Google says verification reviews take up to five business days, and occasionally longer. In Pakistan you are most often asked for a video verification, which means being at the premises to film the signage, the entrance and the products or equipment you serve customers with. Verifying your website in Google Search Console can make it instant in some cases.
Do I need a CNIC or an NTN to register a .pk domain?
Not as a registry rule. PKNIC's own policy states that there is no requirement for the domain registrant to have any local presence, and that no admin contact needs to be in Pakistan. Where a reseller asks for a CNIC or an NTN copy, that is normally its own customer check. The restricted namespaces are the exception — edu.pk and gov.pk are limited to institutions that can document what they are.
What happens if I forget to renew my domain?
PKNIC's stated policy is that an unpaid domain is de-activated and then, after a hold period of two weeks, offered to anyone else for re-registration on a first-come, first-served basis. You can still pay and reactivate it during that hold, so the practical advice is to diary the renewal and pay early rather than rely on the reminder email — PKNIC says keeping your contact details current is your responsibility, and a reminder you never received is not an accepted reason for paying late.
WebNewBiz is built and run from 2810 N Church St STE 90720 Wilmington, DE 19802. If you would rather ask a question before signing up, call +1 346 374 1888, email support@webnewbiz.com, or use the contact page. When you are ready, start for $1 and describe your business — the first draft of your site takes minutes.
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Every guide is listed on the blog.
Every guide is listed on the blog.
Every guide is listed on the blog.