Another concern is whether they could blackmail the DNS provider to revoke the FR URL name (or any name of somebody they don’t like). These characters are persistent (like in Hillary’s “persist”). If the current DNS management does not cooperate, they could try to replace them.
“Another concern is whether they could blackmail the DNS provider to revoke the FR URL name”
the difficulty in doing that is that there are thousands of registrar services (which are the companies where one leases domains and the starting point for DNS services), most of which are now in foreign countries, and many of those countries are neutral and/or actual enemies of the U.S., not to mention international treaties about interference in other countries’ registrars ... pretty much the only U.S. government option for such interference would be to do what China has done, which is to install international border routers and filter out selected items from foreign countries ...