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. From 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
