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Re:Suspended jaccuzzi by icebraining on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @08:33AM (#8916821)
China is .cn, .ch is Switzerland,
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Re:Suspended jaccuzzi by alexkus on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @10:46AM (#8917428)
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).

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