Who are the root name server operators?
There currently are 12 organisations providing root name service at 13 unique IPv4 addresses. They are: A – VeriSign Global Registry Services B – University of Southern California – Information Sciences Institute C – Cogent Communications D – University of Maryland E – NASA Ames Research Center F – Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. G – U.S. DOD Network Information Center H – U.S. Army Research Lab I – Autonomica/NORDUnet J – VeriSign Global Registry Services K – RIPE NCC L – ICANN M – WIDE Project Information about most operators can be found via www.root-servers.org, or specifically via http://X.root-servers.org where X stands for one of the letters listed above.
