NameSilo is a top-10 global domain registrar, with millions of domains under management and customers across virtually every internet-connected market. China is one of the most strategically important of those markets — and one of the hardest to serve.
In China, the majority of consumer payments happen inside super-app wallets, not on cards. Alipay and WeChat Pay dominate. For a Western business, integrating these methods well isn't just a technical exercise — it requires local clearing relationships, corridor-specific compliance, and operational uptime that holds across time zones.
Most Western payment processors offer Alipay as a supported method, in theory. In practice, availability is inconsistent, settlement is slow, and the per-transaction economics don't fit a registrar's price point. For a business selling domains at single-digit dollar margins, a 3-4% blended cost structure isn't viable.
NameSilo turned to Pockyt for one specific job: deliver Alipay acceptance that's reliable, locally cleared, and economically sustainable at registrar scale.
What that meant in practice:
Corridor-specific expertise. Pockyt's primary depth is in the China corridor — local clearing, Alipay direct integration, compliance posture, and the operational muscle to keep it running. We treat the corridor as our product, not as a checkbox on a long list of supported methods.
Predictable economics. NameSilo needed a cost structure that matched their unit economics, not a generic enterprise fee schedule. The Pockyt integration is priced to make Alipay viable as a real payment method at domain-registrar margins.
Uptime that doesn't drift. A registrar checkout that fails 1% of the time at the wrong moment loses sales it cannot recover. The Pockyt partnership has been live and stable since 2023, and uptime is treated as a primary metric — not an afterthought.
Pockyt gives us reliable Alipay acceptance for our Chinese customers — coverage and uptime we couldn't get from a generic processor. They've been a dependable partner since 2023.
· NameSilo
Since going live in 2023, the Pockyt × NameSilo partnership has been anchored on three things: uptime, predictable economics, and corridor-specific expertise. That stability lets NameSilo focus on what it does best — running the domain registrar — while the China corridor runs as part of the infrastructure rather than as a project.
The broader pattern is one we see across customer categories: local payment methods in growth markets aren't a feature, they're infrastructure. The merchants who treat them as primary infrastructure — and partner with someone who treats the corridor as their product — capture revenue that competitors leave on the table.
Today, NameSilo uses Pockyt for Alipay acceptance in their China corridor. The integration sits inside NameSilo's existing checkout — customers see Alipay as a payment option alongside cards and other methods, complete the payment in their Alipay wallet, and the funds flow through Pockyt's local clearing relationships into NameSilo's settlement.
It's a focused integration with a deliberately narrow scope: do one corridor exceptionally well. As Pockyt's primitives have expanded — virtual accounts, multi-currency treasury, stablecoin settlement, programmable logic — the surface available to NameSilo has expanded with them. The partnership can grow with the product.
If your business depends on accepting payments in markets where most processors don't perform, talk to our team.