:What can I do if the Internet Content Provider (ICP) number of my domain name expires?

Challenge

According to relevant laws and regulations in the Chinese mainland, Alibaba Cloud CDN cannot provide the acceleration service to domain names that are deployed in the Chinese mainland and do not have a valid ICP number. If the accelerated region of your domain name is Chinese Mainland Only or Global, and the ICP number of the domain name expires, Alibaba Cloud CDN suspends the acceleration service for the domain name.

Solutions

• Solution 1: Change the accelerated region of the domain name.
  If you want to accelerate the delivery of content from origin servers that are deployed outside the Chinese mainland, you can change the accelerated region of the domain name to Global (Excluding the Chinese Mainland). This way, content delivery is accelerated only by CDN edge nodes deployed outside the Chinese mainland. The pricing strategies vary based on the accelerated region. For more information, see CDN Pricing.

  1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud CDN console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Domain Names.
  3. On the Domain Names page, find the domain name that you want to manage and click Manage in the Actions column.
  4. In the Basic Information section, click Modify.
  5. In the Region dialog box, set Region to Global (Excluding the Chinese Mainland).
  6. Click OK.
• Solution 2: Resolve the domain name to the origin server before the domain name obtains a valid ICP number.

  In this example, a domain name whose registrar is Alibaba Cloud is used to demonstrate how to resolve a domain name to the origin server. If your domain name uses other registrars, you must complete the settings in the system of the registrar. The procedure is similar to the one described in this example.

  1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console.
  2. On the Manage DNS page, find the domain name that you want to manage and click Configure in the Actions column.
  3. Click Add Record. Change the CNAME record to an A record.

     Parameter	Description	Example
     Type	A is selected in this example.	A
     Host	Enter the prefix of the domain name.	If the domain name to be accelerated is www.aliyun.com, enter www. If the domain name to be accelerated is aliyun.com, enter @. If the domain name to be accelerated is *.aliyun.com, enter *.
     ISP Line	Enter the default Internet service provider (ISP) line.	Keep the default setting.
     Value	Enter the IPv4 address or the domain name of the origin server.	10.10.10.10
     TTL	Enter a time-to-live (TTL) value for the CNAME record. A smaller value indicates a shorter period of time to apply record updates. The default TTL value is 10 minutes.	Keep the default setting.

  4. Click Confirm.

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