{"id":1018054,"date":"2026-07-01T09:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018054"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:02:59","slug":"why-india-wants-its-own-internet-root-server-from-icann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/01\/why-india-wants-its-own-internet-root-server-from-icann\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India wants its own internet root server from ICANN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time you open a website, send an email or run a search, your phone or computer has to do one thing first. It has to find the address. <\/p>\n<p>You typed a name \u2014 say, \u201cthepioneer.com.\u201d But machines don\u2019t understand names. They understand numbers. So your device asks: which number goes with this name? That question travels up a chain of computers until it reaches the very top of the internet\u2019s address book. At the top sit a small set of machines called root servers. For most of the internet\u2019s history, they have been based in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time you open a website, send an email or run a search, your phone or computer has to do one thing first. It has to find the address. You typed a name \u2014 say, \u201cthepioneer.com.\u201d But machines don\u2019t understand names. They understand numbers. So your device asks: which number goes with this name? That question travels up a chain of computers until it reaches the very top of the internet\u2019s address book. At the top sit a small set of machines called root servers. For most of the internet\u2019s history, they have been based in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018067,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018054\/revisions\/1018067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}