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OSCE ASKS KAZAKHSTAN TO REMOVE INTERNET RESTRICTION. RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 9, No. 206, Part I, 2 November 2005 The OSCE announced in a 31 October press release on the organization's website(http://www.osce.org) that Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE's special representative on freedom of the media, has written to the Kazakh government asking it to remove recently imposed regulations on the registration of Internet domain names. Noting that the new rules"would put the allocation of domain names on the World Wide Web in Kazakhstan entirely under government control," Haraszti offered three recommendations: 1) that a body independent of the government should administer the Internet in Kazakhstan; 2) that registration of a".kz" domain should be a "purely technical process"; and 3) that servers for a ".kz" domain should not have to be located in Kazakhstan. DK