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Top-level Internet domain for Switzerland the Swiss newspaper .ch (newspaper).ch (newspaper) .ch DotCH domain logo.png 20 May 1987 Country code top-level domain Active SWITCH Information Technology Services SWITCH Information Technology Services Entities connected with Switzerland 2,564,228 2024-01-15 2024-01-18 Domain Names - Statistics https://www.nic.ch/statistics/domains/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20240118214737/https://www.nic.ch/statistics/domains/ 2024-01-18 2024-01-18 Switch Very popular in Switzerland and also used around the world for domain hacks Two letter domain names are restricted to cantons Registrations permitted at second level Terms and conditions Dispute Resolution Proceedings https://www.nic.ch Yes .ch is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Switzerland in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Naming The domain ch, as with other ccTLDs, is based on the ISO 3166-2 code for Switzerland derived from Confoederatio Helvetica (Helvetic Confederation),From the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland the Latin name for the country, which was used because of its neutrality with regard to the four official languages of Switzerland. Registration Made available in 1987,EuropeID 5 July 2016 .CH's Growing Popularity as Domain for China EuropeID https://europeid.com/global-domain-news/chs-growing-popularity-as-domain-for-china/ 2017-04-22 europeid.com en-US only two years after .com, it is administered by SWITCH Information Technology Services.Legal Info - Internet Domains https://www.nic.ch/terms/ 2017-04-22 www.nic.ch en Second-level domain names must be at least three letters long. Two-letter subdomain names are restricted to the Swiss cantons, as well as the domain ch.ch of the Federal Chancellery of Switzerland. The only exception has been the former domain of the Expo.02 which was held in Switzerland, www.expo.02.ch.April 2017 Registrations of internationalized domain names have been accepted since March 2004.April 2017 In the Chinese domain market .cn .ch has been of a rising interest to Chinese domain investors for several reasons. According to EuropeID.com, the domain .ch still has many valuable English keywords and short letter and number combinations left. A contributing factor may be because the majority of .ch registrations are in German, leaving many English words available. In addition, with two million domains under .ch being registered, most of the reserved domains have the European market in mind, allowing valuable domains for other languages such as Chinese keywords in the Latin script being registered at a normal price. Domain hacks The .ch domain is very popular in domain hacks, used to spell words and names that end in "ch". For example, Techcrunch's tcrn.ch, as well as the University of Michigan's myumi.ch and umresear.ch.2024-01-18 URL Shortener https://vpcomm.umich.edu/resources/url-shortener/ 2025-01-19 Switch This phenomenon is not limited to English; to take another example, the domain scha.ch (Schach, German for "chess") has been registered. .swiss The Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) has begun registering .swiss domains as of 7 September 2015Launch of the new .swiss internet domain https://dot.swiss/en/news-en/launch-of-the-new-swiss-internet-domain/ dot.swiss 8 January 2016 2015-09-09 meant to augment the traditional .ch TLD. Applicants must currently have a "registered place of business and a physical administrative base in Switzerland" to apply.Facts https://dot.swiss/en/facts/ dot.swiss 8 January 2016 References External links IANA .ch whois information .ch NIC registry Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Communications in Switzerland Category:Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Category:Internet in Switzerland Category:Internet properties established in 1987 sv:Toppdomän#C