Got exactly the same in French. Like you, I do not understand why a company that is not for-profit sells services that goes far beyond the accountability of a TLD and does competition to Swiss hosting providers thru a strategic positioning of the advertisement. It is too easy: they sell hosting services and catch probably loads of illiterate people that don’t understand TLD and hosting are two different services.
I also found just amazing that they do not offer this service in any other language than German. On the French version, the order button contains a statement like “Products only available in German”. I will not remind as well that they offer the chance to hosting companies to use their API and benefit of special rates with minimum commitment requirements. I hope someone will bid at the end of this mandate and that the OFCOM/BAKOM will not renew their license for operating the CH TLD and rather leave it to a company that is both really neutral and non-for-profit or to a big commercial corporation that will drop the prices of these domains even more. I am even not too sure that operating the Swiss Research network thru SWITCH is more interesting than it would be by outsourcing it thru various ISPs... 2010/7/12 Viktor Steinmann <[email protected]> > I agree, that SWITCH should not have included this "switchplus" part in > their info mail, as it's completely unrelated to the rest of the > information. Also the banner on their website doesn't belong there, as no > other entity can buy banner space there. > > The best reaction might be a letter to the federal competition comission > (WEKO), since SWITCH is obviously using its (still) good name and user data > to push a product/a company in an unfair way. > > I'm willing to sign such a letter, but I honestly wouldn't know, how to > write one (lawyer's language...). > > Kind regards, > Viktor > > > Martin Blapp wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> This morning I got a mail from switch, our official swiss dns registry. >> >> I remember that switch itself made years ago some policies to not use the >> dns root .ch for advertising. And unfortunatly that's exactly what happens >> here, IMHO this mail advertises nothing else than 'switch plus' and their >> services. >> >> Unfortunatly the services from switchplus are NOT even hosted in >> switzerland, >> they are reselled from germany. I've visited recently the switch webpage, >> and found >> in the middle on the page a banner to switch plus. This is very >> problematic since >> a lot of new people will follow this link and buy packages. All other >> swiss companies >> don't have this opportunity to advertize. >> >> Let's take another example. You all know the cantonal car-inspection MFK. >> For >> me this is like the MFK would offer now car repair, car-cleaning services >> at the time >> you have the car in inspection. What does an average customer then says to >> himself? >> 'Great, that's all from one place, from one hand, that's a deal, even if >> it is the same price >> as before.' At the end, the local dealers have to close their business, >> because they >> haven't the same rights the government and their institutions has. >> >> Finally we all loose, if lot of ISPs and hosters have to close their doors >> because webhosting >> and mailhosting is not able to finance the ADSL business anymore. >> >> Switch, you have an offical mission from BAKOM, please only do what you >> should do, and nothing else. Thank you ! >> >> Martin Blapp >> >> >Sehr geehrter Herr XXX >> > >> >Sie erhalten diese E-Mail, weil Sie bei SWITCH einen oder mehrere >> >.ch- oder .li-Domain-Namen registriert haben. Zurzeit werden Kunden von >> >SWITCH seitens Dritter aufgefordert, ihren Domain-Namen von SWITCH zu >> >einem anderen Anbieter zu transferieren. Dies mit der Begründung, dass >> >man bei SWITCH bald keine Domain-Namen mehr registrieren könne. >> > >> >Um mögliche Missverständnisse und Verunsicherungen zu vermeiden, >> >berichtigen wir diese Fehlinformationen wie folgt: >> > >> >SWITCH registriert und verwaltet die .ch-Domain-Namen im Auftrag des >> >Bundesamts für Kommunikation (BAKOM). Der Vertrag zwischen SWITCH und >> >dem BAKOM läuft bis zum Jahr 2015. Eine Erneuerung des Vertrags ist >> >möglich. Sie sind daher bei SWITCH gut aufgehoben und brauchen nichts >> >zu unternehmen. >> > >> >Mit der Gründung unserer Tochtergesellschaft switchplus haben wir die >> >Weichen für die Zukunft - unabhängig vom Vertrag mit dem BAKOM und >> >dessen Erneuerung - gestellt. switchplus bietet schon heute zusätzlich >> >zur Registrierung von Domain-Namen das Hosting von E-Mail und Web an. >> > >> >Als unabhängige Stiftung hat SWITCH für die Schweizer Hochschulen das >> >Internet in der Schweiz etabliert. Wir leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag >> >zur Stabilität des Internets und bieten qualitativ hochstehende >> >Dienstleistungen für Hochschulen und Dritte an. >> > >> >Für Fragen steht Ihnen unser Helpdesk jederzeit gerne zur Verfügung. >> > >> >Freundliche Grüsse >> >SWITCH Internet Domains >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swinog mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog >> > > > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog >
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