Gauss Research Laboratory, that manages national domain of Puerto Rico .PR, announced successful installation of another L-root instance of DNS system in the city of San Juan. In the statement Gauss Research Laboratory points out that this installation will reduce response time for DNS queries and will make usage of the Internet in the region even more stable and comfortable. ICANN corporation welcomes this event. “ICANN applauds NIC.pr's efforts in developing Puerto Rico's information and telecommunication sector”, said Chris Mondini, Vice President of ICANN. He also pointed out that the corporation welcomes initiatives of regional structures in creation of L-root instances in their regions.
DNS root servers contain information about top-level domains and are the basis of the whole domain system. There are 13 of them, they are identified by a letter of Latin alphabet from A to M. The majority of the servers are distributed - a lot of instances are located in different countries of the world. For example, one of the instances of the same L-root server is located in Russia, in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
