30% wholesale price cut for .CH domains

We are an ICANN-accredited registrar of the official country-code top level domain name extension for Switzerland – .CH for more than six years. This particular ccTLD has enjoyed great popularity among both personal and business website owners from all over the world.

One of the reasons for the vast popularity of the .CH domains are that in addition to being the right choice for Swiss websites and businesses, they can also be easily used for clever domain hacks.

We’ve just discounted the price of the .CH TLD extension with as much as 30%! And this is not just a seasonal discount or a limited time offer – it’s a long-term price reduction that you can take advantage of starting today. Read below to find out more about the history of the .CH ccTLD and the main advantages of registering your website with it.

Boost your business offering .CH domains

As you’re probably well aware, Switzerland is a wealthy country with a flourishing economy. The unemployment rate is very low and it has an impressive GDP per capita. It has been ranked as the wealthiest country in the world multiple times during the past ten years and it is world famous for its banking sector.

Because of the aforementioned, the Swiss online market is targeted by many online businesses around the world.

If you’re also targeting the Swiss market, it’s recommended to get a .CH domain name extension for your site instead of just random generic domain name extension. This way, you’ll inspire trust in your potential visitors and last but not least your site will have a higher search engine ranking.

There’s a steadily growing number of .CH ccTLDs registered every year. One of the main reasons for this is the fact that .CH can be easily used for neat and attractive domain hacks in two different languages – English and German. For instance: SWIT.CH, SCHA.CH and many others.

Will the .CH domain price cut affect your current prices?

If you already offer .CH domains, your existing prices will be modified to reflect the price cut.

You can update your retail prices with a couple of clicks. Just go to the Reseller Control Panel and update your current retail .CH ccTLD retail price.

If you haven’t offered .CH domains prior to the price reduction, enabling them on your reseller hosting store is a piece of cake! Just go to My Offers -> Domain Offers in your reseller dashboard:

A brief history on the origin of .CH domains

The official country-code top level domain name extension for the country of Switzerland was launched as early as 1987 which is merely two years after the most popular .com domain name extension.

The ‘CH’ abbreviation itself is popular all around the world – it’s the official ISO 3166-2 code for Switzerland and you can even see it on Swiss vehicle plates. It’s short for Switzerland’s Latin name – Confoederatio Helvetica (Helvetic Confederation). This name was believed to be equidistant from the four official languages of Switzerland, namely: German, French, Italian, and Romansh.

Though introduced in 1987, the .CH became available for public registrations in 1995. Ever since more and more .CH domains are registered each year, as you can see from the diagram below. As of currently, there are over 2 million active .CH domain names.

The .CH country-code top level domain name extension can be used for multiple clever domain hacks (a word or a phrase derived from the combination of adjacent levels of a given domain), such as TEA.CH, LUN.CH and others. There are many words in the German and in the English language which end in ‘CH’.

What’s more, the vast majority of currently active .CH domains are in German. This means that there are countless English language combinations which you can still think of and eventually register. Also, the .CH domains currently target visitors from Europe.

The .CH ccTLD is perfect for the Chinese online market as well. The official Chinese ccTLD, .CN already has many millions of registrants, unlike .CH, limiting general availability of new, attractive domain names. As a result, nowadays, .CH is even registered by Chinese businesses. So, if you’re targeting the Chinese online market, now is the perfect time to get your .CH ccTLD.