Swiss Education & Research Network

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Industry: Internet
Founded: 1987
Headquarters: SWITCH, PO Box, CH-8021

Zurich, Switzerland

Country: Switzerland
Businesses: switchplus,eduhub.ch
Website: SWITCH

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SWITCH (The Swiss Education & Research Network) represents the interests of Switzerland as a research centre in numerous bodies and its key role therefore makes an important contribution to the development and operation of the Internet in Switzerland.[1] SWITCH provides internet services for the Swiss universities and internet users which include registration of .ch and .li domain names, web hosting and internet security services.[2] It supports DNSSEC.[3]

Services

SWITCH offers a great variety of services for students and teachers to promote internet activities in upcoming youth. It has created a community portal for information exchange. To promote e-learning SWITCH has strated a project of eduhub.ch.[4] It has organized a Junior Web Award to enhance the ability of using the web in children.[5] Moreover, a conference named domain pulse is organized by network information centre of Austria, Germany and SWITCH since 2004 to discuss subjects related to internet security and development. The conference is open for Internet Service Providers, registrars and interested parties equally.[6]

Partners

The partners of SWITCH can register domain names directly. SWITCH started this policy in 2003. Its partners include:

  • 1&1 Internet AG
  • 123domain.eu
  • 1API GmbH
  • Adomino Marketing GmbH
  • Ascio Technologies Inc.
  • BAR Informatik AG

Complete list can be found here. [7]

References