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A comprehensive solution that provides domain name registration, analysis, and protection services to help you build a website that is optimized for China.

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As low as $1.69 for a .cn domain for your first year.

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Why Choose Alibaba Cloud?

  • Trusted, Experienced, Secure

    With more than 20 million registered domain names and over 1 million cloud service users around the world, you can always rely on our technical capabilities and the quality of our services. Our free privacy protection service shields your personal information from unauthorized access, and our intuitive and user-friendly operating environment helps you manage your business more effectively and securely.

  • Domain Registration and Beyond

    Domain registration is a start, but it's not enough. Alibaba Cloud offers several additional services like real-name authentication, ICP filling, and DNS resolution to help you navigate the complicated regulatory landscape of China and meet the necessary infrastructure requirements to ensure that your business venture succeeds in China.

  • Easy To Use

    Alibaba Cloud provides a self-service domain name solution with intelligent query and quick registration capabilities, so that you can easily manage domain services through our powerful platform.

  • Competitive Pricing

    We offer affordable prices, with prices as low as only $1.69 for your first year with a .cn domain, and we do this without compromising the quality of our services. Our prices include the domain management agency fees (ICANN fees) and contain no hidden or additional charges.

As low as $1.69 for a .cn domain for your first year

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Take the First Steps to Launch Your Business in China

Alibaba Cloud has played a huge part in the everyday lives of Chinese businesses for the past 20 years, and we’ve been on the international cloud market for 10 years. Alibaba Cloud enables you to deliver a secure and stable website for your customers in China and around the world. Your online journey in China starts here with domain registration.

If you want to host a website, email, and other business services on a server or a Content Delivery Network (CDN) node located inside Mainland China, you will need to register a domain name first. Alibaba Cloud's domain name solution allows you to register various types of domain names with Alibaba Cloud Domain service, and your domain name registration information is fully protected from malicious attacks, thanks to several security services that are built-in to our services, which includes privacy protection and a cloud security lock.

After you have registered a domain, Alibaba Cloud helps with the following steps, including real-name authentication, ICP filing, and DNS resolution processes, so that you can start providing services to your customers in China quicker.

Step 1: Register a Domain Name

Go to the Domain Name Registration page. Find the domain name that fits your business, and register your domain name.
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Step 2: Complete Real-Name Authentication

Pass the real-name verification process. Note that, according to the regulations issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), all .cn domain name holders must submit factual, accurate, and complete information for their registered domain names.

Step 3: Obtain an ICP Filling

Obtain an ICP (Internet Content Provider) Filing through a nine-step process.

Step 4: Configure DNS Resolution Settings

Add DNS records to your domain names to make your domains accessible to users.

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Interested in Doing Business in China?

  • China Gateway
    We know what it takes to be successful and secure in China. China Gateway is an easy one-stop solution for your company to access our advanced cloud infrastructure and do business in China.
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  • ICP Registration Support
    To host a website in Mainland China on a server or CDN node, both individual and enterprise applicants must apply for an ICP Filing. Learn how to obtain an ICP Filing or ICP Commercial License.
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