and properties is available at https://root-servers.org/. as of 6 2023, there were 1708 root servers worldwide.

The modern trend is to use anycast addressing and routing to provide resilience and load balancing across a wide geographic area. For example, the j.root-servers.net server, maintained by Verisign, is represented by 104 as of 1 2016 individual server systems located around the world, which can be queried using anycast addressing.

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