784.104.2VIDFederal Council Ordinance01.01.2015Originalquelle
The following designations or categories of designations are subject to reservation:1
designations of federal institutions and units of the federal administration, names of federal councillors and of chancellors of the Confederation, designations of official buildings and other designations associated with the State which appear in the central list of designations deemed worthy of protection as domain names; this list is drawn up by the Federal Chancellery;
2 the names of the Swiss cantons, political communes and places in accordance with Article 3 of the Ordinance of 21 May 20083on Geographical Names, and the abbreviations consisting of two characters which designate the cantons;
names and abbreviations of the international organisations protected by Swiss legislation;
designations which must be reserved in the generic top-level domains in accordance with the rules which apply at the international level;
designations necessary for the activity of the Registry, in particular for its communication.
Reserved designations or categories of designations may be allocated as domain names only to those persons or categories of persons for whom they are reserved, unless the persons or categories of persons have permitted allocation to third parties; the foregoing does not apply to designations allocated to third parties before the designation is reserved or before this Ordinance comes into force. In the absence of agreement, homonymous canton and political commune designations are allocated to the commune concerned.
Footnotes
Amended by No I of the O of 18 Nov. 2020, in force since 1 Jan. 2021 (AS 2020 6251). ↩
Amended by No I of the O of 18 Nov. 2020, in force since 1 Jan. 2021 (AS 2020 6251). ↩