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13 December 2005

Borat.kz revoked by kazahk DNS overlords.

post by: delmoi at: 22:40 | 6 comments

Out of curiosity, I went to nic.kz to see what the new regulations were that they used to revoke the borat.kz domain, but everything off the English-language front page is in Cyrillic. Meh.

posted by tracicle 13 December | 23:22

I went to nic.kz to see what the new regulations were that they used

They need regulations to revoke domain names in Kazahkstan?

posted by Jimbob 13 December | 23:51

Isin said the borat.kz Web site had broken new rules on all .kz sites maintaining two computer servers in Kazakhstan and had registered false names for its administrators.

I didn't know Babelfish had a Kazak->English option. But in trying to make head or tail of it I have to ask: isn't "had broken new rules" bureaucratese for "was in violation of rules we added for the purpose of finding him in violation of"?

posted by George_Spiggott 14 December | 00:07

What's weird is that Borat looks nothing like an actual kazakh, who look actually Chinese (maybe a little paler) Definetly not the big-hary greek type that Borat plays. Oh well.

posted by delmoi 14 December | 00:49

what's also weird is that the point of borat isn't to make fun of kazakhs but to make poignant commentary on the nature of racism by having an outsider or alien say things people are comfortable hearing from naturalized or familiar voices.

posted by shmegegge 14 December | 02:11

also to make funny jokes about testicles.

posted by shmegegge 14 December | 02:12

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