.ch

Registration terms: 1 years. Transfers in are not supported. Registration waits for registry documents.

• Registry documents are required. The domain waits in a pending state until you upload documents and the registry approves them.

At a glance

Property	Value
Registration terms	1 years
Renewal terms	1–10 years
Transfer in	Not supported
Transfer lock	Not available
Extra registry fields	None
Registry documents	Required
Trustee service	Not available
WHOIS privacy	Available
DNSSEC	Not supported
IDN (non-ASCII names)	Supported
Name servers under the domain	Not allowed
Contact change by handle	Available
Registry checks name servers	No
Test environment	Available

What each property means and which error you get if you ignore it: TLD catalogue.

Lifecycle

In calendar days. — means the registry does not publish the period.

Period	Days	What happens
Add grace	—	Deleting a new registration within this window is refunded.
Auto-renew grace	—	After expiry the registry renews automatically; a second renewal in this window is refused with 10020.
Redemption	—	After deletion, POST /api/v1/domains/restore still works.
Deletion hold	—	After redemption, before the name is released to the public. Nothing can be done.

Ready-to-send requests

Each request below is built from this extension’s catalogue entry. Replace the domain, the handles and any value in <angle brackets>.

Register

POST /api/v1/domains/register with contact handles you created with POST /api/v1/contacts. To send contact details inline instead, use POST /api/v1/domains/register-with-contacts with the same tldAttributes.

{
  "domainName": "apiname.ch",
  "period": 1,
  "nameServers": [
    "tr.apiname.com",
    "eu.apiname.com"
  ],
  "handles": [
    { "contactType": "Registrant", "handle": "D-174829301847" },
    { "contactType": "Admin", "handle": "D-174829301847" },
    { "contactType": "Tech", "handle": "D-174829301847" },
    { "contactType": "Billing", "handle": "D-174829301847" }
  ]
}

Renew

POST /api/v1/domains/renew — call POST /api/v1/domains/renew/check with the same body first. See Renew a domain.

{
  "domainName": "apiname.ch",
  "period": 1
}

From the TLD catalogue on 2026-11-02. For live values call GET /api/v1/products/tlds?filterText=ch.