Afaik Russia has its own DNS roots under their "sovereign internet" program, see for example "3. The Implementation of a Russian National Domain Name System (DN

Afaik Russia has its own DNS roots under their "sovereign internet" program, see for example "3. The Implementation of a Russian National Domain Name System (DNS)" here: https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/deciphering-russias-sovereign-internet-law https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/deciphering-russia... I would assume that Chinese have similar capability, maybe some other countries too.