26.04.2012

SWITCH celebrates 25 years of .ch

The Swiss Top Level Domain .ch is 25 years old: it was in May 1987 that .ch was registered as the Swiss ending. This was the point at which the Internet in Switzerland came to life – even before the World Wide Web had been invented. It was the year in which Andy Warhol died, the rock group Nirvana was founded, Steffi Graf won her first "Grand Slam" and Platoon was awarded an Oscar for the best film. In 1987, the Swiss Internet address ending .ch was registered – and, as of that time, SWITCH was responsible for administering the country domain. Read on

Registry (NIC)

SWITCH – our mission

At the service of the universities

SWITCH provides innovative, unique internet services for the Swiss universities and internet users.

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switchplus ag – our subsidiary

Hosting and domain names

switchplus offers web and mail hosting as well as domain names for private and business customers.

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Global participations – our commitment

Internationally networked

We believe in knowledge networking: as a participant in DANTE, operator of the European research network, and as a member of partner organisations worldwide.

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Initiatives – in Switzerland and internationally

Education matters to us

There are many different facets to our commitment: extending from eduhub.ch, the national e-Learning forum, via the specialist internet conference Domain pulse, right through to the Junior Web Award, the website competition for school classes.

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Education matters to us
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