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://inve

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-e744-485e-9cc3-d2624abf187f 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/ https://root-servers.org/ Latency https://a.root-servers.org/metrics https://a.root-servers.org/metrics 13 root servers https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers