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Not that I know of except from having a big cache and many users that keeps it warm. As I said you could run a local root zone but that only saves you the one time lookup every week+ of the tld name servers and the root servers are generally very close to you. There is a map of all root servers. There are 12 in .nz alone. A few cc tlds are providing their zone via axfr [1] so you could add that to your resolver to save some roundtrips but I don't think having .ch or .se locally will make a big difference and they are 1.2GB each and you would need to download them daily.

[0]: https://root-servers.org/ [1]: https://github.com/jschauma/tld-zoneinfo





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