According to the Administrative Measures for the ICP Filing of Non-commercial Internet Information Services, the requirement for an ICP filing for your website or app depends on where its server is located. If your server is located in the Chinese mainland, you must complete the ICP filing through the server's access provider.
Notes
To complete an ICP filing with Alibaba Cloud, you must associate or purchase an Alibaba Cloud server located in the Chinese mainland:
If your website or app uses Alibaba Cloud resources located in the Chinese mainland, Alibaba Cloud acts as your network access provider and provides an ICP filing service. If your cloud resources are in nodes in regions such as China (Hong Kong) or other locations outside the Chinese mainland, an ICP filing is not required.
If you use servers from other vendors, such as on-premises data centers, Huawei, or Tencent, you must contact the corresponding vendor to complete the ICP filing.
Alibaba Cloud servers eligible for ICP filing
Only the following cloud products (servers) are eligible for an ICP filing through the Alibaba Cloud ICP Filing service. You can log on to the ICP Filing console to check whether the servers under your account meet the requirements. If your servers do not meet the requirements, you can use the Purchase link in the table to purchase an eligible server.
Eligible cloud product type | Server requirements for ICP filing | Purchase link | Number of free ICP filings (service codes) |
ECS instance |
Important
| 5 | |
Cloud Web Hosting |
| 5 | |
Simple Application Server instance |
| 5 | |
Low-Code Development Platform |
| 1 | |
Smart Website Building | The server used by the website building product must be in the Chinese mainland. Otherwise, you cannot apply for an ICP filing. The number of ICP filing service codes varies depending on the product version and specifications. |
| |
Function Compute resource plan |
| 1 | |
LinkedMall |
| 2 | |
IoT Studio |
| 1 | |
Website Building Marketplace products (Alibaba Cloud Marketplace) |
| 1 | |
Meoo | Activate the Meoo Team plan. | 5 (one-time offer per account) |
ICP filing rules for other Alibaba Cloud services
Cloud product name | ICP filing scenario | Filing rule |
OSS | When you bind a custom domain name to an OSS endpoint, you must apply for an ICP filing for the custom domain name. | The domain name must have an ICP number from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The ICP filing information is not required to be registered with Alibaba Cloud as the service provider. |
CDN | When you use Alibaba Cloud CDN POPs in the Chinese mainland in the Chinese mainland, you must apply for an ICP filing. | The domain name must have an ICP number from the MIIT. The ICP filing information does not need to be registered with Alibaba Cloud. Warning If the origin server is deployed on Alibaba Cloud, the domain name used for back-to-origin requests must be added to the Alibaba Cloud ICP Filing system. Otherwise, access to your domain name will be blocked. |
WAF | When you use Alibaba Cloud WAF for security protection for a domain name hosted on a server in the Chinese mainland, you must apply for an ICP filing. | |
IP Address of Anti-DDoS Proxy instance | When you use Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDoS for a domain name hosted on a server in the Chinese mainland, you must apply for an ICP filing. |
Servers for ICP filing and ICP filing service codes
An ICP filing service code is a unique, randomly generated string provided by the Alibaba Cloud ICP Filing system. This code is used to associate the server for ICP filing with the website or app that is being filed.
Get an ICP filing service code
First, ensure that your server meets the requirements in the list of Alibaba Cloud servers eligible for ICP filing. If you do not have an eligible server or your current server does not meet the requirements, you must purchase or renew an eligible server.
Are you using the same account? | How to obtain a service code | Next step |
The filing account and the server account are the same Alibaba Cloud account. | You do not need to obtain a service code in advance. The system automatically generates one during the filing process. | Start the ICP filing process and fill in the ICP filing information. |
The filing account and the server account are different Alibaba Cloud accounts. | The enterprise account that owns the server must authorize the use of the service code before you start the filing. For more information, see Obtain a service code. Note Accounts verified for individual use cannot authorize service codes for others. You must change the account verification from individual to enterprise before you can authorize a service code. | After you receive the service code authorized by the enterprise account, start the ICP filing process and fill in the ICP filing information. |
View the status and quantity of ICP filing service codes
You can log on to the ICP Filing Service Code Management console with the Alibaba Cloud account that owns the server to view the status and quantity of your service codes.
The number of available service codes varies by server type. We recommend that you go to the Manage Instances for ICP Filing page to check the number of available ICP filing service codes. If you have reached the limit, you can purchase a service code and associate it with an instance to increase the number of filings that you can perform. You cannot complete an ICP filing by only purchasing a service code.
Service codes generated by this account: Includes service codes generated from cloud products purchased with this Alibaba Cloud account, paid service codes, and service codes generated through other methods.
Service codes authorized to you by others: Includes service codes authorized to this account by an enterprise account.
FAQ
The following are frequently asked questions about ICP filing cloud products and service codes. For more information, see ICP filing service code FAQ.