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by mbrundle 4164 days ago
Me too, I thought it was a startup called Jacuzzi that had just been kicked out of China.
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China is .cn, .ch is Switzerland,
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).