Tencent Holdings

Tencent Cloud holds approximately 9% of China's cloud services market. Its position in the domain space is unusual for a cloud provider: it owns and operates DNSPod, one of China's largest DNS service providers, which puts it in both cloud infrastructure and domain name services.

Launched in 2013 as a subsidiary of Tencent Holdings Ltd, the company built its domain registration and DNS management around DNSPod's existing infrastructure rather than adding domain services later. The result is an integrated platform covering domain registration through to complex DNS configurations.

The registrar service supports a wide range of top-level domains, including .com, .net, .org, and various country-specific TLDs. Domain management is tied into the wider cloud platform, so DNS settings, renewals, and configurations are handled in the same interface as cloud hosting and databases.

DNSPod provides what the company describes as "fast, stable, and highly available DNS services." Alongside it sits HTTPDNS, a mobile DNS service built to avoid domain name hijacking and the cross-network access problems caused by local DNS, both of which are real constraints for mobile applications on China's networks.

SSL certificates follow the same integrated pattern. Tencent Cloud offers what it calls a "one-stop digital certificate management service" that works with the domain registration and DNS management tools, so organizations managing multiple domains and certificates stay on one platform.

Headquarters are in Shenzhen, and the company serves customers across 27 regions worldwide. Domain and DNS services are strongest in the Asian market, where the networking challenges and regulatory requirements differ from what global providers typically handle.