Maybe it's just that I'm deliriously tired, but I'm still missing how "the DNS root" can alter the data in MY zone sitting on my little authoritative server som

Maybe it's just that I'm deliriously tired, but I'm still missing how "the DNS root" can alter the data in MY zone sitting on my little authoritative server somewhere. Can you please walk me through the actual attack? As someone else pointed out, all the root can do is potentially redirect a TLD to a controlled TLD registry, which could then conceivably serve out NS records for my domain pointing to an owned authoritative DNS server... which could then serve out bogus data. BUT... I have to think someone would notice the redirected TLD!