Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 12.10.211.in-addr.arpa. NS
Answer
12.10.211.in-addr.arpa. 3 NS ns01.idc.jp.
12.10.211.in-addr.arpa. 3 NS ns02.idc.jp.
12.10.211.in-addr.arpa. 3 NS ns03.idc.jp.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0