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Ferghana.ru reports that there are 16 431 domains that end in .kz, but of those only around 1 000 are actually functioning. Many of the idle .kz domains were bought in the hopes of selling them. According to the article, these domains bought on speculation often use pretty words or popular brand names-in the hopes that pleasant domains will sell fast or that nike will buy nike.kz now that it has opened stores here.

It’s sort of a fun to try to guess which domains might be bought but not used given these parameters.
For example Nike.kz doesn’t appear to exist in any way. Asem.kz is used by Asem, the stationary/office supplies/computer store (asem means “beautiful” in Kazakh. which was why I tried it). Mercedes.kz is in use.

As for prestigious names which might be in-demand Nazarbayev.kz is up for grabs and so is President.kz.

Finally after all that searching (plus a lot of brand names I’m not listing here), I found a site up for sale: Cool.kz From there you can see a bunch of other sites up for sale:, including Welcome.kz, Euro.kz, Tvshop.kz.

But, dear reader, I ask you: What does cre and ucb mean?