Again: you don't have to touch the root servers. The root servers are a red herring here. It's the TLD operators who exercise all the real control. IANA/ICANN will have nothing to do with the resulting situation.

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kensey an hour ago | parent [-]

See my other comment above. A malicious TLD operator is not something everyone is just powerless to deal with.

	▲	tptacek an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Short summary of my response to that comment: you're wrong, and ICANN does not in fact have the real-world power to liberate .COM from the United States Government.