DNS delegation of gertrudes.com updated: May 24, 2013 8:20:00 PM
Delegation
step
query
auth
servers
1
gertrudes.com.
.
(d,l,f,e,m,j,i,c,h,b,a,g,k).root-servers.net.
2
gertrudes.com.
com.
(a,m,i,d,b,l,c,h,j,f,g,k,e).gtld-servers.net.
3
gertrudes.com.
gertrudes.com.
(water2,water1).rapidvps.com.
We pick d.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root servers (1), and ask it about gertrudes.com and learn that com is delegated to 13 name servers (2), so we ask a.gtld-servers.net where we learn that gertrudes.com is delegated to two name servers, including water2.rapidvps.com (3), so we ask that one and get the following answer: