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India rooting for its own root server

India home to 52 million Internet users as of June 30, 2015, is now rooting for its own root server

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MUMBAI, INDIA: India home to 52 million Internet users as of June 30, 2015, is now rooting for its own root server.

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Presently, there are only 13 such servers of which 10 are in the US, two in Europe and one in Japan.

According to Wikipedia, a root server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. It directly answers requests for records in the root zone by returning a list of the authoritative name servers for the appropriate top-level domain (TLD).

The root name servers are a critical part of the Internet infrastructure because they are the first step in translating (resolving) human readable host names into IP addresses that are used in communication between Internet hosts.

"A root server will help India have more control over Internet traffic. Moreover, placing a root server in India will also be a great symbol of trust in Indo-US relations," Economic Times quoted an anonymous source.

For making its case to establish route servers, India told the US a fortnight ago that the management of the Internet needs to be more democratic and beyond the realm of the 10 root servers in the US, which are mostly located in NASA, military research labs and universities, ET reported.

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