Hi Oliver,

I am using amenic.ch -

Why? Its basically the same guys as Novatrend*, but since you asked fore a "registrar only" that's what they did to allow their customer to prevent customer drain ;)

I know them personally, IPV6 is possible, I think DNSSEC is currently under work (I also asked for that :D )

Silvan

* Disclaimer: good friends, I help run their network, so there is a clear affiliation there.

----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- Von: "Olivier Mueller" om-lists-swinog@omx.ch An: swinog@swinog.ch Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. November 2014 15:08:00 Betreff: [swinog] .ch registrars : goodbye nic.ch, but where to go then ?

Hello,

As you most probably all know, .ch domains which are still registered at nic.ch have to be moved to another registrar by autumn 2016 (https://www.nic.ch/reg/cm/wcm-page/misc/aufgabentrennung.html).

But thanks to some recent marketing campaigns (like "Per 31. Dezember 2014 braucht Ihre .ch-Domain ein neues Zuhause!"), ads and newspaper articles, some customers are already panicking, so I am also looking for a new home for a few hundreds of self-hosted domains.

Requirements: - it should be a registrar only company, if possible (to prevent departure of customers to other hosting companies) - customer billed directly - DNSSEC / IPV6 capable - no aggressive ads on checkout (add antivirus, add top listing, add hosting, etc.)

At the moment, my first choice would be gandi.net, even if they are a little bit more expensive than the others and they are also selling some kind of hosting, because it "just works", and I like their "no bullshit" promise :)

But maybe there would be a more suitable alternative, so my question to you if you are in a similar situation : which is your new .ch-registrar and why ?

Thanks & kind regards, Olivier

PS: just in case, here is the current list of .ch-Registrars according to the official listing @ Switch, sorted by yearly-cost (no warranty of correctness). 26 companies out of total 70 are not listed (no visible public pricing, reseller-only, etc.) :

CHF URL 1 8.90 http://www.infomaniak.com/en 2 9.90 https://www1.q-x.ch/ 3 9.95 http://www.greenmark-it.de/ 4 10.70 https://www.hosttech.ch/ 5 10.75 https://www.metanet.ch/ 6 10.81 http://www.ovh.com/fr/index.xml 7 11.90 http://www.kreativmedia.ch/de/ 8 11.96 http://www.hostway.de/ 9 12.90 http://www.netzone.ch/ 10 12.95 http://www.novatrend.ch/de/ 11 13.50 http://www.1api.net/ 12 13.80 http://www.bar.ch/ 13 13.90 http://www.firestorm.ch/ 14 14.00 https://www.iway.ch/ 15 14.16 http://www.123domain.eu/ 16 14.42 https://www.namebay.com/ 17 14.50 http://www.green.ch/de-ch/home.aspx 18 14.50 http://www.netim.com/domain/ 19 14.90 https://www.amenic.ch/de/ 20 14.90 https://www.cyon.ch/domains/ch-transfer 21 14.90 http://www.easyname.com/en 22 14.90 http://www.webland.ch/ 23 15.00 https://www.hostfactory.ch/ 24 15.00 http://www.hostpoint.ch/ 25 15.00 http://www.vtx.ch/ 26 15.50 http://www.domainpartner.ch/ 27 15.50 http://www.mhs.ch/domains 28 15.50 http://www.switchplus.ch/?lang=de 29 15.90 https://www.hosteurope.ch/ 30 16.12 http://www.gandi.net/ 31 16.71 http://www.inwx.de/ 32 18.03 http://www.1domain.at/ 33 18.36 https://www.101domain.com/ 34 18.41 http://www.marcaria.com/ 35 19.00 https://www.openprovider.co.uk 36 19.71 http://www.domaindiscount24.com/de/ch-domain 37 20.05 https://www.checkdomain.de/ 38 33.66 https://www.eurodns.com/ 39 36.06 http://www.info.at/ 40 58.90 http://www.1und1.de/ 41 59.50 http://www.register.eu/ 42 70.92 http://www.domainname.at/ 43 101.75 http://www.instra.com/ 44 119.00 https://www.united-domains.de/

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