Communication Ports and Hosts for Parallels Desktop for Mac

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Parallels Desktop for Mac needs to communicate with the hosts listed below using the specified ports. Please make sure that your Mac computers can communicate with these hosts. 

Licensing

Activation

Account management

Technical data reports

Sending feedback

Help, documentation, support portal, and knowledgebase articles

Management of Parallels Desktop Enterprise Edition

Host names and ports used in China

To make sure our customers in China get the best experience, Parallels Desktop sends a request to both account.parallels.con and account.parallels.cn when starting up. Its sole purpose is to determine if a user is located in China so we can optimize the experience accordingly. If you're located in China, then the product will communicate through 433 port with the services mentioned above but hosted in China. For example, when activating Parallels Desktop, the product will send a request to license.parallels.cn but not to license.parallels.com.  

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