[151056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [apnic-talk] Concern about gTLD servers in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sat Mar 10 11:12:12 2012
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0+aXaH8H4OQ6zaJd30PcaWhbRYKM+3dL5ZpWzAZG0MaOALig@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:00:44 -0600
To: Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>
Cc: APNIC Mailing List <apnic-talk@apnic.net>, Nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mar 10, 2012, at 1:28 AM, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> Can someone share if there's huge difference in . root servers Vs gTLD =
servers?
Yes, there is a huge difference. For one thing (and ignoring the =
quantity of data), the operations of a gTLD's name servers is managed by =
a single entity (e.g., for .COM, VeriSign). The root servers are =
independently managed by 12 different organizations with no central =
management.
> I understand that root only hold all TLD's - cc and gTLD delegation =
that would be few hundred TLDs delegation while gTLDs hold lot of domain =
names but if one country has root, what prevents having gTLD also?
I'd imagine business/economic rationales. =46rom the perspective of a =
gTLD operator, what's the business justification for deploying =
non-trivial opex/capex? Root server deployments are less driven by =
economics and are more political in nature.
Regards,
-drc
