News Archive 2007

Opening times between Christmas and New Year 2007/2008

05.12.07 - SWITCH's offices will be closed from 24 December 2007 to 2 January 2008.

SWITCH is reducing the price for SWITCHbasic domain names from CHF 22 to CHF 17 on 1 February 2008.

07.12.07 - The premium product SWITCHguard costs CHF 34.

Students take note: you can now surf free-of-charge in restaurants, railway stations – or on park benches.

26.11.07 - SWITCH and its partners, Monzoon Networks, Swisscom, TheNet and The Public Network are now offering free surfing at more than 2000 public hotspots.

The best websites by Swiss school classes

16.11.07 -

More than 2000 schoolchildren took part in the first national website competition for schools.

The SWITCH Junior Web Award is coming round again, giving school children the opportunity to learn how to handle the virtual world

02.10.07 - More than 100 classes created their own websites for the first Junior Web Award, ensuring a highly positive echo and learning effect. A survey conducted amongst teachers showed that more than 80 percent of those consulted are recommending the Junior Web Award to others. The competition is being launched for the second time round on 17 October.

Round-the-clock above the roofs of Zurich

06.09.07 - The SWITCH webcam was recently set up again – this time on the roof of a high-rise block at the ETH Zurich, from where it offers a unique view over the entire inner city area of Zurich, together with the end of Lake Zurich.

SWITCH discontinuing ENUM trial
as per 30 September 2007

31.08.07 - Over the past four years, SWITCH has acted as the registry for the ENUM trial in Switzerland. It will be discontinued as per 30 September 2007.

SWITCH congratulates Lucerne Fire Brigade

30.08.07 - SWITCH has congratulated Laurent Schütz, the millionth holder of a .ch domain name, in Lucerne. At the Kleinmatt fire station, SWITCH presented him with a certificate, together with a voucher for all 21 crew members to go out for an evening meal together.

Switzerland's one-millionth domain name: www.ez14.ch

26.08.07 - At the end of last week, Mr. Laurent Schütz of the City of Lucerne's fire brigade registered the one-millionth domain name with the ending .ch

SWITCH ushers in a new video conferencing era at the universities

20.08.07 - For seven years, SWITCH has been offering the Swiss universities state-of-the-art videoconferencing infrastructure. Now a new era has commenced. High Definition (HD) video conferencing has been available since the start of the month.

Amendment of the General Terms and Conditions (GTCs)

24.07.07 - SWITCH is aligning the General Terms and Conditions for domain names to the current framework conditions and is now incorporating the registration conditions in a Domain Name Registration Agreement and in the GTCs.

Soon one million domain names in Switzerland.

07.08.07 - Switzerland will soon have passed the one million domain name mark. SWITCH is letting the internet community participate in this event and is launching a competition with a total of 1 million centimes (CHF 10,000) in prize money to be won.

Domain names even less expensive and more attractive as of 1 September 2007 - SWITCHguard for increased security

03.07.07 - SWITCH, the registry for .ch and .li domain names, is reducing the price for domain names from CHF 27 to CHF 22 on 1 September 2007. The new standard domain name is now called SWITCHbasic and offers attractive extra functions. And a new addition to the product range is a domain name which offers increased security – SWITCHguard.

First ISO 9001 certification in Switzerland
for the SWITCH accounts department

14.06.07 - As the first company in Switzerland, SWITCH has been awarded certification to the ISO 9001:2000 standard for its domain name accounts department by the Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems (SQS).

Which school has the best website?

11.06.07 - The Junior Web Award launched by SWITCH is proving to be highly popular. More than 100 classes – or more than 2000 students – have created in excess of 100 websites. From 15 June 2007 onwards, the five best websites will be established in six categories by means of a public vote on the www.juniorwebaward.ch website and subsequent adjudication by the "Best of Swiss Web" jury.

Students conquer the "Green Diamond"

24.05.07 - The Junior Web Award launched by SWITCH is proving particularly popular. Students are learning about the internet and having a great deal of fun in the process. The island that features in the Junior Web Award was recently baptised and now bears the name of "Green Diamond".