Provider
Alibaba Cloud
The largest Chinese registrar, and the only .cn counterparty that sits inside the system it sells access to: MIIT-approved registration, real-name verification and ICP filing under one roof.
- Country
- China
- Legal form
- Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd, operating as HiChina
- Trust score
- 3 / 5
Our assessment
Its documentation is the most specific in the .cn field: the verification path, the foreign documents accepted including a foreign business registration certificate, the three-to-five business day review by a third-party authority, and the rule that a domain must have more than forty-five days left before expiry when you file for ICP. It offers no trustee, which on a registry that verifies the registrant's own identity documents is the correct product decision rather than a gap. The weakness is the split between its two sites: its own guidance states that the Alibaba Cloud International site does not support ICP filing, so a foreign buyer who wants a mainland-hosted site is pushed to the China site, which requires a Chinese business licence, which is the thing they did not have. It offers no route around that and does not pretend to.
Restricted TLDs covered
.cn.
Where this provider appears
- .cn trustee comparison, with its fee, five-year total and exit terms in the table.
What is checked
Per-TLD fees and five-year totals, the contract terms on surrender and transfer, the legal entity that becomes the registrant of record in each country, non-payment behaviour, and what shows in each registry's public lookup. Figures are published only once verified against the provider's current pricing, with a date. The trust score weighs contract transparency, exit terms and holding structure ahead of price, and is not affected by affiliate arrangements because there are none.
Last updated September 2026. The assessment is editorial and based on the provider's published terms and public register data. Spotted something out of date? Email info@trusteeindex.com.