That's how colonialism works. Rid the colony of resources, introduce tech and changes the local population has no experience with and make sure not to train them on it. Watch them attempt to get their freedom while at the same time being forced to come to you for help.
On this particular issue, Gabon never had to administer this, so they never had a need for this skillset.
> Watch them attempt to get their freedom while at the same time being forced to come to you for help
On the other hand, they obviously weren't forced to ask France to administrate their DNS, since they worked with Freenom for all this time (though maybe not the 30 years of so since .ga was allocated) until they just now turned to a French non-profit...
