Packet Clearing House Report on Root Nameserver Locations
This map plots the density distribution of the root nameservers which are the top of the Internet's domain-name resolution hierarchy, by country. Countries must have root nameservers, country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) nameservers, and Internet exchange points (IXPs) within their borders in order to maintain autonomy and internal connectivity during periods when international cables are damaged.
Hold your cursor over a dot on the map to see the city name and which root-servers are present there. We use the United Nations list of countries, and countries which display as less than one pixel are listed below, but aren't indicated on the map.
Last updated Thursday 29th of September. This report is free for reuse and adaptation.
Countries with Root Nameservers: 96
United States(86), Brazil(19), Germany(15), Canada(13), France(13), Australia(12), China(10), Italy(10), New Zealand(9), Japan(9), United Kingdom(8), South Africa(7), Netherlands(7), Spain(6), Switzerland(6), Korea(5), Argentina(5), Sweden(5), Norway(5), Ukraine(5), Finland(5), Poland(5), Singapore(5), Kenya(4), United Arab Emirates(4), Indonesia(4), Bangladesh(4), Egypt(4), Turkey(4), Russia(4), India(4), Philippines(4), Belgium(4), Estonia(4), Portugal(3), Ireland(3), Netherlands Antilles(3), Saudi Arabia(3), Czech Republic(3), Greece(3), Chile(3), Malaysia(3), Costa Rica(3), Austria(3), Taiwan(3), Bulgaria(3), Luxembourg(2), Mozambique(2), Qatar(2), Grenada(2), Bahrain(2), Armenia(2), Mexico(2), Ecuador(2), Iceland(2), Mongolia(2), Nepal(2), Cote D'Ivoire(2), Senegal(2), Pakistan(2), Romania(2), Hungary(1), Tanzania(1), Papua New Guinea(1), Latvia(1), Peru(1), Croatia(1), Yemen(1), Thailand(1), Puerto Rico(1), Lebanon(1), Solomon Islands(1), Venezuela(1), Lithuania(1), Colombia(1), Nigeria(1), Dominican Republic(1), Fiji(1), New Caledonia(1), Malawi(1), Azerbaijan(1), Kazakhstan(1), Slovakia(1), Oman(1), Israel(1), Panama(1), Bhutan(1), Sri Lanka(1), Denmark(1), Slovenia(1), El Salvador(1), Montenegro(1), Cambodia(1), Uruguay(1), Serbia(1), Tunisia(1)
Countries without Root Nameservers: 109
Algeria, Belize, Cameroon, Cyprus, Ghana, Iran, Madagascar, Nauru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Micronesia, Kosovo, Antigua and Barbuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Jordan, Malta, Palau, Sao Tome and Principe, Tajikistan, US Virgin Islands, Lesotho, Trinidad and Tobago, Afghanistan, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Congo-Kinshasa, Gambia, Haiti, Liechtenstein, Myanmar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Somalia, Tonga, Zimbabwe, Mauritania, Uganda, Andorra, Benin, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Greenland, Iraq, Maldives, Nicaragua, Samoa, Swaziland, Viet Nam, North Korea, Moldova, Curaçao, Aruba, Botswana, Comoros, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Marshall Islands, Paraguay, Seychelles, Timor-Leste, Western Sahara, Liberia, Turkmenistan, Albania, Belarus, Burundi, Cuba, Georgia, Honduras, Macedonia, Namibia, Saint Lucia, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Sint Maarten, Angola, Bolivia, Central African Republic, Dominica, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mali, Niger, San Marino, Syria, British Virgin Islands, Kuwait, Monaco, South Sudan, Bahamas, Brunei Darussalam, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Guyana, Laos, Morocco, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zambia, Libya, Tuvalu
If you need to cite this information in a formal way (i.e. for bibliographical purposes), we suggest you use:
Packet Clearing House, Internet exchange point directory reports.
Retrieved on Thursday 29th of September from http://wwww.pch.net/ixpdir/summary_root_servers
Last updated: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:29:46 +0000