About HiChina > HiChina Profile
HiChina, Founded in 1996, is the largest network services provider in China. With a whole set of one-stop online services relating to domain name registration, web hosting, mail hosting and e-commerce, etc., HiChina is dedicated to help the enterprises with their own website design for their further high quality and low cost network marketing and final network information management of enterprises.
It has been an accredited registrar by both ICANN and CNNIC, which are the highest Internet administrative organizations worldwide and nationwide. At present, the number of the domain names both in Chinese and English managed and hosted by HiChina has been reached more than three millions. So, this has built its strong position in domain name registration industry and the introduction of web hosting technology. And currently it is serving more than 300,000 enterprise users with fast, stable and secure websites as well as email hosting services.
Undergoing ten years development, it gained the investment from multiple international VCs. In particular, with the investment of dozens of million USD from Synnex -a Fortune 500 companies in 2007, HiChina get fast growth. HiChina companies contain HiChina (
www.net.cn). Mymai (
www.com.cn) and Eachnic (
www.eachnic.com) provide an all-in-one IT application as well as Internet marketing services.
Headquartered in Beijing, it has so far established 12 branches and has developed about 8000 agents through 31 provinces and cities nationwide. This made HiChina become the real flagship of the Chinese Internet service industry.
| 2008 |
| Mar |
HiChina was awarded the best "Sunrise and Landrush" registrar in DotAsia greater China in Mar 2008. |
| Feb |
HiChina was awarded the honor of "2007 CN Domain Gold Medal Registrar" by CNNIC in Feb 2008. |
| Feb |
Mr. Stan X.D. Zhang, CEO and President of HiChina, was honored "The 4th Beijing Excellent Young Entrepreneur Silver Award" in Feb 2008. |
| Jan |
HiChina was elected "2007 Innovations Award" and "2007 Excellent Enterprise Email Award" in the 2nd China IDC Industry Annual Ceremony in Jan 2008. |
| 2007 |
| Sep |
HiChina was awarded "Self-discipline Contribution Award" in 2007 China Internet Industry. |
| Aug |
HiChina was awarded the honor of "2007 IDC Brand First Choice" in China Internet Industry Annual Meeting. |
| Jun |
HiChina was awarded "Anti-spam Contribution Award". |
| Apr |
HiChina became one of the Tsinghua Science and Technology Park "Diamond Plan" as the exclusive internet service industry company. |
| Feb |
HiChina's web hosting was awarded "Market share the first" and "Preferred brand by user" in 2006 China IT brand network market research. |
| Jan |
HiChina was awarded the honor of "2006 CN domain name gold medal registrar" and "2006 IDN gold medal registrar". |
| 2006 |
| Dec |
HiChina was awarded the honor of "Preferred domain service registrar by network manager". HiChina email hosting products was awarded the honor of "2006 green email" by CNNIC. |
| July |
HiChina was awarded the honor of "The best customer service center before 30 in China" and "The best customer service management group in China". |
| June |
HiChina announced that the largest cluster server were achieved the Telecom / CNC dual link access. |
| May |
HiChina issued the first X series web hosting in China and "one to three" free network service. HiChina the Qingdao,dalian and Xian branches were founded. |
| Mar |
HiChina was awarded "The first IDC license" in web hosting industry by the Information Industry Dept. |
| Feb |
HiChina successfully held the Chinese IDN marketing Forum. |
| 2005 |
| Mar |
HiChina's web hosting and email hosting products were awarded "Overall Superior Prize" and "Outstanding Performance Prize" by "China Information World". |
| Jan |
Ranked first among CNNIC excellent registrars for 6 years successively and kept the number one hold in the total CN domain names and new registration. |
| 2004 |
| Jan |
HiChina was elected among "ten most popular IT companies in China in 2003", others include HP, TCL,and Ericsson. |
| Jan |
HiChina exclusively launched. name registration in China, in cooperation with Global Name Registry. |
| 2003 |
| Mar |
HiChina establishes its Guangzhou branch company. |
| May |
HiChina moves its head office to the newly renovated HiChina Mansion, and starts to execute the ISO 9000 system. |
| Jun |
CNNIC announces HiChina as in the leading position among the five "star" registrars. HiChina's domain registration volume is the largest according to CNNIC's announcement. |
| Aug |
HiChina publishes the first "Virtual Hosting Industry Standard" in China. |
| Oct |
HiChina goes through ISO 9000 certification. |
| 2002 |
| Apr |
HiChina puts online the newly developed e-commerce management system-BIZCENTER, which provides online transaction of domain name registration, web hosting and other products. |
| Jul |
HiChina celebrates its 6th anniversary with more than 400 celebrities. |
| Sep |
Mr. Stan X.D. Zhang, CEO and President of HiChina,is awarded "Excellent Young Entrepreneur" a second time. |
| Oct |
HiChina attends ICANN Global Meeting held in Shanghai as Golden Sponsor, together with China Mobile. |
| Dec |
CNNIC officially accredits HiChina as domain name registrar. |
| 2001 |
| Feb |
HiChina provides the new VDS Web Hosting System to the market. |
| Mar |
HiChina is credited the best Internet Service Platform Web Site in 2000-2001 by "Computer Weekly". |
| Aug |
HiChina becomes accredited registrar of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) . |
| Oct |
HiChina establishes its Shanghai branch company. |
| 1999 |
| Feb |
HiChina receives investment injection from IDG venture capital. |
| Apr |
Since this month, HiChina has been the best reseller of CNNIC. |
| Aug |
HiChina obtains financial backup from NSI for promoting domain name product. |
| Aug |
HiChina forms strategic alliance with Soim. |
| Oct |
HiChina forms strategic alliance with Netease. |
| Nov |
HiChina forms strategic alliance with 263 search engine. |
| Dec |
HiChina becomes the first and only "Gold Premier Partner" of InterNIC in Asia. |
| 1998 |
| Jul |
InterNIC and NSI select eight prominent Internet companies in Asia as its Premier Partners,HiChina and China Telecom are among them. |
| Jul |
Statistics provided by InterNIC show HiChina is at the top in terms of CNO domain registration in China. HiChina becomes the largest domain name registration and web hosting provider in China. |
| Nov |
HiChina announce its well-known "Ten Thousand Web Sites Plan", which is to help 10,000 Chinese companies to have their own web site by the end of 2000. |
| Nov |
HiChina puts online www.net.cn e-commerce platform. |
| 1997 |
| Jan |
HiChina sponsors "China Internet Situation and Domain Name Protection Workshop", with the most influential companies in China and government agencies actively attending. |
| Mar |
HiChina puts out the first Virtual Hosting Service in China. |
| Apr |
With the support of HiChina, about 200 most wanted domains are assigned back to the hands of their legal registrants (owners) such as Haier,Tongrentang, Hisense and so on. The Domain Name Protection Campaign initiated and executed by HiChina is recognized as a significant milestone in the development history of Internet in China. |
| 1996 |
| Apr 27 |
HiChina Corporation is established and entitled "High-tech Company". |
| May |
HiChina sets up its own Internet server in Hong Kong, launches "Hi!China" web site called www.hichina.com. |
| Jul - Aug |
Cooperating with "China Sports Daily" and "People's daily", HiChina live broadcast the Atlanta Olympics Game through "Hi!China" web site in Chinese, which is the first of this kind of live broadcast in China. |
| Dec |
HiChina launches domain name protection campaign, aroused the awareness of major companies in China to protect their well-known trademarks in the Internet. |
| Dec |
HiChina starts to provide the first domain name registration service in China. |