Through two arbitration applications, China's leading e-commerce website Alibaba.com has won back the two short message addresses that were registered by a machine tool company in Shenyang.

A representative from Alibaba tells local media that Alibaba did not originally register the two addresses because short message addresses was not formally launched at the time when the Shenyang company purchased the data.

Alibaba says it was not until they learned the two were preemptively registered by the above said company did they begin to apply for arbitration.