Am I the only one who is ROFLMAO about this? There is nothing
> preventing other nations and/or organizations from setting up their > own root servers
Except the fact that many Internet users' computers won't even recognize them. Nameservers are hard-wired to look up TLDs and SLDs using specific root servers, and for them to use other root servers you're going to have to have a huge number of ISPs, etc., change etheir NS configurations.
It amazes me how much press this issue has gotten recently.
It shouldn't.
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