If it's Swiss, make it .swiss !
The .SWISS does not intended to replace .CH, the national extension of Switzerland, and does not represent a geographical extension such an area or a province. The .SWISS is dedicated to the Swiss community and aims to highlight the universally recognized values of Switzerland such as quality, precision and reliability.
Owner:
An organization registered in Switzerland
Domain name:
No generic terms
All applications for a .swiss domain name must be approved by the registry according to the Eligibility and Name Selection criteria set in the .swiss General Registration Policy.
In case of rejection of the registration request, we will proceed with the refund of the order.
Eligibility of the registrant:
A check of the registrant's informations will be done on the validity of the registration number and its adequacy with the name of the entity.
In addition, the registry can ask for additional information in order to check eligibility and accept the registration request.
Currently it is not possible for an individual, even citizen or residant in Switzerland, to obtain a .SWISS domain name .
Eligibility of the domain name:
Applications are possible for the following domain names :
Generic names generally refer to a category or class of goods (e.g. chocolate.swiss, cookies.swiss, pizza.swiss, watches.swiss), services (e.g. bank.swiss, finance.swiss, hairdresser.swiss, insurance.swiss), persons or groups (e.g. consumers.swiss, lawyers.swiss, students.swiss, families.swiss), organizations (e.g. universities.swiss, associations.swiss, clubs.swiss), objects (e.g. machines.swiss, tools.swiss, vehicles.swiss), industries (e.g. bakeries.swiss, carpentry.swiss, construction.swiss) or activities (e.g. soccer.swiss, sports.swiss, yoga.swiss) or that describe these.
These very generic terms may only be awarded under naming mandate (formal application for registering a group of domain names that benefit the entire community). Please note that NETIM does not offer this type of registration. Therefore, if an application is defined as a generic term by the Registry, the registration will be rejected.
Publication delay:
All validated names will be published on registry's website for a period of 20 days, allowing contending applications to be filed during such period, prior to turning into registrations.
Domain names will be allocated and activated online after the delay of 20 days.
Domain names shown as available could be already requested and currently in the publication delay.
There is no specific procedure related to the registration of a domain name.
.SWISS domain names are allocated on a "first come, first served" basis.
In order to transfer your domain name to Netim, you must disable transfer protections and obtain the authorisation code from your current Registrar.
The transfer may take several days.
When the transfer is finalised, a year is added to the expiry date of the domain name.
To change the holder, you must first go through an authentication process.
To that end, validation emails will be sent to both current and future domain holders.
After a period of 5 days, the request will be cancelled.
The domain expiration date is not affected by the transfer process.
Some additional information may be requested in order to register a domain. In general, this information is collected by the registries in order to identify the owner, verify that he complies with the registration rules, etc. Here are the additional fields needed for this extension.
Field | Label | Description |
---|---|---|
SWISS_INTENDED_USE ** |
Intended use |
* Mandatory field |
companyNumber |
UID/IDE/IDI number |
Swiss legal entity registration number * Mandatory field |
Each action on a domain name is managed in our system with an operation. Here are the types of operations supported by this extension. Please note that you can use these operations with our SOAP and REST APIs.
Here are the special caracters supported by this extension :
à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
ā ă ą ć ĉ ċ č ď đ ē ĕ ė ę ě ĝ ğ ġ ģ ĥ ħ ĩ ī ĭ į ı ĵ ķ ĺ ļ ľ ŀ ł ń ņ ň ʼn ŋ ō ŏ ő œ ŕ ŗ ř ś ŝ š ť ŧ ũ ū ŭ ů ű ų ŵ ŷ ź ż ž
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