.swiss Domain

.swiss is a top-level domain (TLD) for Switzerland. It was approved by ICANN as a TLD on 16 Oct 2014. This is meant to supplement the traditional .ch TLD. The Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) began registering .swiss domains as of 7 September 2015. Open registration to other legal entities begins from 11 January 2016.

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Register the domain of your choice for 189,35€ / year

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Available Extensions

Available registrations (e.g. domain.swiss): Yes

Useful Information

  • Cancellation period 1 Day
  • Whois Server whois.nic.swiss

Contact Prerequisites

Owner contact must meet the following requirements:

  • Country must have the following value: ch

Available types:

  • Owner must be Organization
  • Admin must be Person or Organization
  • Tech must be Person
  • Zone Admin must be Person

Owner must always fill in the following fields:

  • VatId
  • CompanyNumber

Please note that the .SWISS registry will publish the registration requests of all domains on its website every Tuesday for 20 days. During this time it will be possible for other entities to place competing applications.

Further information is available at the website of the .SWISS registry.

Transfer

Before the transfer can be started, the domain must be enabled for transfer by the old registrar.

The transfer must be initiated by our system.

To successfully initiate a transfer, you must provide a valid authorization code. You can obtain the authorization code from the old registrar.

Once the transfer has been successfully initiated, the old registrar must confirm the transfer.

If the old registrar does not respond to the transfer within 5 Days, the transfer is automatically confirmed.

Usually, a transfer completes in 5 Days.

Owner Change

An owner change is free and can be easily performed in our system.

Name Server

  • Check: No
  • IP Types: IPv4/IPv6
  • DNSSEC: Yes
  • min. Name servers: 0
  • max. Name servers: 13

Restoration

A restoration can be performed in our system up to 30 Days after deletion.