Alibaba, China's top online retailer, started on Sept 19 to request users of its China site toregister their real names, saying that they would be unable to trade via the website from Sept23 if they did not.
The e-commerce giant issued an online notice saying real-name registration would be one of aseries of steps the company would make towards building its website into an honest and fairtrading platform.
The company's chief executive officer David Wei and chief operating officer Elvis Lee resignedin February, after accepting responsibility for allowing more than 1,000 suppliers to defraudonline customers.
Subsequently, Alibaba has made efforts to clean up its online trading environment, includingstepping up monitoring of suppliers and providing awards for honest traders.
Alibaba which is based in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang province, is 43 percent-owned by US Internet giant Yahoo!.
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