.ch registrars : goodbye nic.ch, but where to go then ? - swinog

25 Nov 2014

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/