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Top-level domain .kz
introduction	September 19, 1994
category	country-specific
Registry	Association of IT Companies of Kazakhstan
Award	unrestricted
number	0.128 million

.kz is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Kazakhstan . It has existed since September 19, 1994 and is administered by the Association of IT Companies of Kazakhstan , based in Nur-Sultan (Astana until 2019) .

properties

Officially, any natural or legal person can register a .kz domain without having to reside or have a branch in the country. However, there are reports that the registry would suspend domains if the content available under them was hosted abroad . The measures were criticized by human rights organizations.

In addition to .kz, a variant in Cyrillic (.аз) has existed since 2012 . There are also various second-level domains , such as .com.kz for companies , .net.kz for Internet service providers and .org.kz for non-profit organizations .

Web links

• Official website of the registry

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics KazNIC. KazNIC, accessed February 12, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Delegation Record for .KZ. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority , accessed October 24, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .asia, .kz and .nl. In: domain-right. February 11, 2008, accessed October 24, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: Kazakhstan's new ending. In: domain-right. March 6, 2012, accessed October 24, 2013 .