India, June 30 -- Every time you open a website, send an email or run a search, your phone or computer has to do one thing first. It has to find the address. You typed a name - say, "thepioneer.com." But machines don't understand names. They understand numbers. So your device asks: which number goes with this name? That question travels up a chain of computers until it reaches the very top of the internet's address book. At the top sit a small set of machines called root servers. For most of the internet's history, they have been based in the United States. For a country with more than a billion people online, that can feel like depending on someone else for something basic. That feeling is what's driving India's push to bring a root serv...