Many clients often ask about ICP filing without knowing what it is or what use it has. Here is the explanation.
The Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services divide internet information services into commercial and non-commercial classes. The state applies a licensing system to commercial internet information services and a filing system to non-commercial ones; without a licence or completed filing, one may not engage in internet information services.
Websites running in mainland China all need ICP filing. Filing protects your website: if the site is attacked or suffers financial loss, you can report the case with the filing permit. And after filing, you can use domestic hosting, whose opening speed for mainland users greatly exceeds other hosting, protecting rankings and conversion. Without filing, your website cannot use domestic space or servers at all, so filing is necessary.
What benefits does ICP filing bring a corporate website’s operation?
1. Domestic hosting is secure, fast and stable. Sites on domestic space are generally safer: on foreign servers, hacking is likelier; on domestic ones the odds are much lower, and if attacked, the server being domestic makes handling convenient and fast. On foreign hosting, sites are sometimes laggy, with long stretches of failure to open.
2. It wins users’ trust more easily. Filing, simply put, is installing an identity card on your website: when users visit and see your filing information, they judge the site trustworthy.
3. Filed sites display in the browser: now, whether personal or corporate filing, opening a site shows the enterprise or individual before the address bar, which reads as more trustworthy, and netizens browse with greater peace of mind.
Applying for filing is also simple: basically you need a domain and a server.
What to bring for ICP filing? For company filing: the website’s responsible person brings their original ID card, the original duplicate of the business licence and the company seal. For personal filing: the responsible person brings their original ID card.
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