The Swiss government is relaxing the registration rules for its .swiss gTLD so that regular people will be able to register names there from next week.
Previously available only to registered legal entities in Switzerland, from April 24 any Swiss person at home or abroad will also be able to buy .swiss domains.
The TLD will still be heavily regulated, however. You’ll only be able to register domains that match your own name or the name that you are commonly known by. You won’t be able to register common family names without an accompanying given name.
Swiss people living elsewhere will be able to register, but will be forbidden from using their names for commercial purposes.
.swiss lives alongside the country’s official ccTLD, .ch, which is derived from the Latin name for the multilingual nation.
While .swiss is perhaps more internationally recognizable, to date it has attracted only about 26,000 registrations, compared to the 2.5 million in decades-old .ch.
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