Dubai · Free zone
DIC
Dubai Internet City
The honest read
What it is actually good at.
The regional headquarters address for most of the global technology industry. You are buying proximity — to their procurement teams, their partner programmes and their staff when those people move on.
Who is actually based here
Regional headquarters of global technology firms, systems integrators, software vendors and the agencies selling to them.
What it costs
Upper-band free zone pricing with a cluster premium. Offices rather than desks, and the activity list is narrow.
How banks receive it
Straightforward. The tenant profile is corporate and banks treat it accordingly.
Commonly licensed here
- Emirate
- Dubai
- Type
- Free zone
- Location
- TECOM / Dubai Development Authority
- Established
- 2000
- Licence issuance
- 3–5 weeks
- Residence visas
- By leased area
- Ownership
- 100% foreign
- Premises
- Offices and co-working within the cluster
Timelines, quotas and package contents are indicative and change without notice. We confirm every one against the current schedule before you commit to anything.
Premises
Where the office actually goes.
DIC sits in Dubai Internet City, so choosing this free zone is also choosing this neighbourhood — the commute, what your staff can walk to at lunch, and who your clients pass on the way up.
The regional headquarters cluster for the global technology industry, part of the TECOM group of districts along the Sheikh Zayed corridor. What DIC itself offers by way of premises: Offices and co-working within the cluster.
- District
- Dubai Internet City, Dubai
- Typical rent
- Upper band free zone pricing — a premium over general free zones
- Licence type there
- Free zone
Questions
Yes, relative to general free zones. You are buying proximity to enterprise technology buyers and their talent pool, which for some businesses is worth it and for most is not.
Technology, software and related activities. General trading will not be licensed.
Yes, it sits under the Dubai Development Authority alongside Media City, Knowledge Park and the other clusters.