It's funny, I was thinking precisely of China when I saw the numbers, due to the use of 8s (considered lucky). And here you are, saying the number 4 (considered unlucky) is actually used in China?

The phone number 114 in China is just like the 411 in the US, it is a directory service, so that's why China uses 114 for the DNS servers.

On that note, the Chinese DNS would not resolve google or facebook properly due to the Great Firewall of China, I wonder if Freenom can resolve those domains within China without any proxy solutions.