[fmax30]

This maybe a bit off topic but, why did Switzerland get the .ch domain instead of china. China seems to have a lousy CN domain ,( which reminds me of cartoon network for reasons that are irrelevant here).

[dan1234]

CH is Switzerland's ISO-3166 code. The full country name is Swiss Confederation (which is Confoederatio Helvetica in latin).

[chevreuil]

I think it stands for "Confederatio Helvetica", and is the official abbreviations (eg : on licence plates)

[skrause]

It has been like that before internet domains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

[na85]

Same reason the abbreviation for the Swiss Franc is CHF.