Who says national governments can't regulate the Internet?

Granted, this is an unusual case, not only because Sacha Baron Cohen is a comedian, but also because the government of Kazakhstan wants to exercise tight control over who gets to register sites using its country code top level domain. Briefly, it is insisting that the DNS servers which make the .kz domain work must be physically located in the country itself. A vivid illustration of how important control over the DNS is for censoring the Internet.

Reporters Without Borders have complained to ICANN, on the grounds that KazNIC, which runs the domain .kz, has only technical not political leverage.