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
- Website
- alibabacloud.com
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 AnalyticsSources
- Alibaba Group: about Alibaba
- Alibaba Cloud: domain terms of service
- Alibaba Cloud Help: using a domain with an ICP filing (hichina.com nameservers)
- IANA: Registrar IDs (ICANN-accredited registrars)
Last reviewed October 9, 2026.