Who is Alibaba Cloud?

Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing business of the Chinese technology group Alibaba, founded in 2009 and tied to Alibaba’s home city of Hangzhou. In China it registers domains under the HiChina brand (万网, net.cn), and it runs DNS for the domains its customers point to it.

What it is
DNS provider, Domain registrar, Web hosting
Part of
Alibaba Group
Founded
2009
Domain brand
HiChina (万网, net.cn)
ICANN accreditation
Yes, Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina, IANA ID 1599, plus sister companies

What is HiChina?

HiChina (万网) is the domain brand Alibaba Cloud uses in China. Its terms describe it as a service brand used by several licensed Alibaba registrars, and nameservers ending in hichina.com belong to Alibaba Cloud.

Alibaba Cloud in axath Analytics

Analytics reads the zone files of more than 350 extensions every day and shows which providers gain and lose names, including Alibaba Cloud.

Open Analytics

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Last reviewed October 9, 2026.

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