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Globally distributed critical infra isn't free.

"As of March 31, 2024, we had 172.5 million .com and .net registrations in the domain name base."

https://investor.verisign.com/static-files/2412702e-e744-485...

"1865 instances operated by the 12 independent root server operators."

Verisign maintains root servers at 209 locations. ("A" and "J") https://root-servers.org/

Latency https://a.root-servers.org/metrics

13 root servers https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers




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