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There are 13 root name servers ; they all behave identically. Most are in North America although there are also servers in Japan and London. One of them (f.root-servers.net) is replicated in many places around the world, including at [APE] in NewZealand for domestic sites.
+[ICANN] is responsible for the root servers, although many institutions run each individual server.
All they do is respond to [DNS] queries by replying with the address of a nameserver for the top level domain for that query.
-If you query a root name server with "www.example.com", it will reply with the address of one of the name servers for the ".com" top level domain.
+If you query a root name server with "www.example.com", it will reply with the address of one of the name servers for the ".com" top level domain. Verisign are in charge of the .com top level (as well as the .net TLD), so one of their name servers will be returned for example.com
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For example:
$ host -t ns -d com.
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