Re: They are obliged by law to do that
I think most people would agree that there's good reasons for spreading the thirteen root servers around the world. Ideally to such an extent that even if (for example) the US and Russia both decided to fiddle with them, there'd still be enough independent copies out there.
And that's ignoring all of the non-political problems that come with clustering services too closely together geographically.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
