Indeed. It's .ch because that's the initialism of the Latin name for Switzerland...

		alexkus on Jan 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Suspended jaccuzzi Indeed. It's .ch because that's the initialism of the Latin name for Switzerland: Confoederatio Helvetica. The Latin name is used to avoid favouring any one of the four official languages (German, French, Italian, Romansch).