We pick c.root-servers.net, one of the 13 root servers (1), and ask it about total.gq and learn that gq is delegated to four name servers (2), so we ask bow.intnet.gq where we learn that total.gq is delegated to four name servers, including bow.intnet.gq (3), so we ask that one and get the following answer:
Total.gq is a domain controlled by four domain name servers at intnet.gq, uoregon.edu and ucad.sn having a total of five IP numbers. Two of them are on the same IP network. Incoming mail for total.gq is handled by one mail server at total.gq themselves. We are missing the IP:s of one server: smtp.total.gq.