Aliexpress.com Biography & Web Analysis

AliExpress is an online retail service situated in China owned by the Alibaba Group. Launched in 2010, it is comprised of private businesses in China and different locations, like Singapore, that offer products to international online buyers. It is the most visited e-commerce website in Russia and was the 10th most famous site in Brazil. It encourages private businesses to offer to customers all over the world. AliExpress has attracted comparison with eBay, as sellers are free to use the platform to offer products to buyers. 

AliExpress began as a business-to-business buying and selling portal. It has since extended to business-to-customer, consumer-to-consumer, cloud computing, and payment services, too. AliExpress currently (2016) runs sites in English, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Indonesian and Russian languages. Customers outside of the country boundaries for these languages are automatically served the English version of the service. AliExpress is frequently used by e-commerce stores that use a dropship business model. 

Venders on AliExpress can be either organizations or individuals. AliExpress is different from Amazon since it acts just as an e-commerce platform and doesn't sell products directly to consumers. It directly connects Chinese businesses with buyers. AliExpress differs from fellow Alibaba-subsidiary Taobao in that AliExpress is fundamentally focused on international buyers. 

AliExpress doesn't offer to customers in mainland China, however most retailers are Chinese themselves. The site offers a a popular affiliate marketing program where partners are rewarded for sending visitors to the site with a commission on sales. 

In November 2020, India's government under The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology banned AliExpress and 42 other applications from China.