Switzerland uses .ch, open to registrants worldwide. Below: who operates each namespace, what its rules actually constrain, the accredited local registrars, and how global registrars compare on price where we hold a sourced figure.
Of the 6 local storefronts read on 2026-09-28, Hostpoint prints the lowest standing .ch price: CHF 15.00 incl. VAT; CHF 8.50 first year. SWITCH accredits 187 registrars to sell .ch; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .ch in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Switzerland, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by SWITCH
These 187 companies are accredited by the Switzerland registry to sell .ch. Every figure below is a fact the registry publishes, read from its accredited-registrar list on 2026-09-20.
SWITCH publishes 187 registrars under contract for .ch. Of those, it lists 0 as offering DNSSEC.
We do not reproduce all 187 names here. Any order we printed them in would imply a ranking, and we have tested none of them. The registry's own list is the authority: SWITCH registrar list, read 2026-09-20.
We have not tested any of these registrars, so nothing here carries a price, a score or a ranking. Comparing them on price and service is work we have not done, and saying which is better would be invention.
Which registrars have a German / French / Italian / Romansh site, bill in CHF and sell .ch?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in Switzerland rather than merely to the world from it: an interface in an official language, billing in the local currency, and selling the local namespace. All three must hold. No registrar we track currently meets all three here.
The English storefront was read and German or French or Italian or Romansh was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefronts were read and German or French or Italian or Romansh was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Bills in USD only. "All prices are in USD" is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, so this is a recorded 'no' on every non-USD currency rather than an absence.
The English storefronts were read and German or French or Italian or Romansh was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and German or French or Italian or Romansh was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and German or French or Italian or Romansh was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Bills in USD only. "All pricing is per year and in USD." is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, as Porkbun's is; recorded as a 'no' on every non-USD currency.
The English storefront was read and German or French or Italian or Romansh was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
The English storefront was read and German or French or Italian or Romansh was not among them. Language switchers are often rendered in JavaScript, which this read cannot see, so this is not recorded as a "no".
Read billing in EUR and PKR and BRL and ARS and COP and TRY and INR and UAH and PLN and CZK and IDR and PHP and SEK and DKK; CHF has not been established either way.
A dash is ignorance, not a failing grade: it means we have not established that condition either way. Several registrars render their language and currency switchers in JavaScript, which the read behind this table cannot see, so we record nothing rather than a false “no”. A currency that appears only in a display selector does not count as billing in that currency, because a converted price charged in dollars is exactly the case this condition exists to catch.
Where to buy a .ch: SWITCH-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
Six Swiss retail brands from SWITCH's accredited list plus the two tracked registrars were opened in a real browser on 2026-09-28. Metanet returned 404 on the pages tried and cyon an unreadable response; OVHcloud's Swiss address returned 404 and Gandi's redirects to the English storefront.
Ordered by the standing .ch price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-28: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 8.1% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
#
Registrar
.ch standing price, incl. VAT
First year
Renewal
source
1
HHostpointGerman storefront, bills in CHF
CHF 15.00as printed, Alle Preise in CHF, inklusive Mehrwertsteuer
Ordered by the standing .ch price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-28: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 8.1% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
Read, not ranked
A local-language storefront, but no .ch price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
HhosttechThe page prints .ch at CHF 13.50 with a CHF 4.90 promotion but no VAT wording on the page read, so whether 13.50 includes 8.1% MwSt is not established.
Hhostfactory.chThe page prints .ch at 15.00 CHF with 5.00 CHF in the first year but no VAT wording on the page read.
IInfomaniakThe German page read prices in euros, not Swiss francs, and prints no .ch figure; the Swiss-franc storefront was not the one reached.
Not read on 2026-09-28: METANET (HTTP 404 on the pages tried on 2026-09-28. Nothing read.); cyon (An unreadable response (HTTP 247, no document language) on 2026-09-28. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in Switzerland
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in Switzerland.
OVHcloud, Name.com, IONOS sell .ch, but none of them has been established to bill in CHF or to run a German or French or Italian or Romansh-language storefront. Where we have simply not checked, the table above says so rather than counting it against them.
For .ch itself, the registry’s own accredited registrars are the route, and they are listed on this page above. We have not tested them, so we name them rather than rank them.
does not bill in CHF; does not sell .ch; no German/French/Italian/Romansh-language storefront established
Verified .com renewal of $11.08. Not the cheapest .com we verify: Spaceship renews at $10.18, 9% less. Porkbun is the pick here for catalogue breadth, not for price. WHOIS privacy: free, included by default.
Buying a gTLD through an English-language registrar that bills in dollars is a real and common choice, so it is named with the trade stated rather than dropped. It is not a recommendation in Switzerland: the conditions it misses are in the column above.
Business use, globally
Namecheap
Support channels: 24/7 live chat, ticket support, knowledge base.
Developers, globally
Cloudflare Registrar
Industry-leading anycast DNS with deep developer tooling. Public API documented.
These two are the site’s global picks and are the same on every country page, which is why they are labelled globally and sit outside the table above. Nothing about a registrar’s API or its support channels changes at a border; what does change is language, billing currency and whether it can sell the local namespace, and that is what the eligibility table measures.
Pricing fetched from each registrar's own pricing page on the date shown. Local registrars may bill in CHF and add VAT/GST/sales tax on top.
Registered through SWITCH-accredited registrars; SWITCH is the .ch registry.
Namespace map
Registered directly under the root label
The Public Suffix List records no delegated second-level namespaces under this delegation: a name is registered directly under the root label, at the second level, rather than under a category such as co. or org.
.chSWITCH The Swiss Education & Research Networksigned in the root zone
Verified and sample pricing per registrar for this TLD, with first-year, renewal, ten-year cost and the date each figure was checked
Registrar
First-year
Renewal
10-year cost
WHOIS privacy
Last checked
(verified price)
Spaceship
$9.08
$10.18
$100.70
Free
2026-09-02
(verified price)
Dynadot
$10.88
$10.88
$108.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Porkbun
$11.08
$11.08
$110.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
OVHcloud
$9.20
$14.69
$141.41
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
AAmazon Route 53
$16.00
$16.00
$160.00
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-29
(verified price)
NNameSilo
$17.29
$17.29
$172.90
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Namecheap
$11.28
$18.48
$177.60
Free, with exceptions
2026-08-19
(verified price)
Hover
$18.99
$18.99
$189.90
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
(verified price)
NName.com
$12.99
$19.99
$192.90
Available (Whois Privacy) o…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
IONOS
$1.00
$20.00
$181.00
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-29
(verified price)
Gandi
$11.00
$38.38
$356.42
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
Compared across the 11 registrars whose .com price we have read ourselves.
Most global registrars price domains in USD; local registrars often invoice in CHF.
Can a registrar we track handle Switzerland?
.ch is sold by 3 of the registrars whose prices we verify, renewing from $10.00: less than the cheapest verified .com at $10.18.
At $10.00 a year, .ch is 23rd of 295 by price among the extensions we verify: $0.18 less than the cheapest verified .com. Registering locally costs less here than registering the default.
Switzerland ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
ccTLD
Sellers we verify
Cheapest verified renewal
vs cheapest .com
.ch
3
$10.00
-$0.18
Renewals are all-in and per year, at the cheapest registrar we verify for that extension, checked 2026-09-29. The .com reference is the cheapest verified .com renewal ($10.18). "Listed" counts registrars our country notes record as selling the extension without a price we have read ourselves.
What this page does not tell you: how the registrars based in Switzerland compare. We list 187 of them by name only, no prices, no scores, no hands-on testing, so any claim here that a local registrar is cheaper, better supported or easier to pay would be invention. Where local billing in Swiss Franc (CHF), local-language support, or a registry rule requires a local registrar, that is a reason to use one, and comparing them is work we have not done.
FAQ
What is the best domain registrar in Switzerland?+
Of the 6 local storefronts read on 2026-09-28, Hostpoint prints the lowest standing .ch price: CHF 15.00 incl. VAT; CHF 8.50 first year. SWITCH accredits 187 registrars to sell .ch; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .ch in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in Switzerland, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .ch domain?+
Open globally; no Swiss presence required.
Which global registrars sell .ch?+
OVHcloud, Name.com, IONOS. Registered through SWITCH-accredited registrars; SWITCH is the .ch registry.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in Switzerland?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in Swiss Franc (CHF). Local SWITCH registrars bill in CHF. A .com bought at Porkbun, Cloudflare, or Namecheap is billed in USD.
What payment methods work in Switzerland?+
Local SWITCH registrars bill in CHF. A .com bought at Porkbun, Cloudflare, or Namecheap is billed in USD.
