Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 166.24.198.in-addr.arpa. NS
Answer
166.24.198.in-addr.arpa. 5 NS ns3.phoenixnap.com.
166.24.198.in-addr.arpa. 5 NS ns1.phoenixnap.com.
166.24.198.in-addr.arpa. 5 NS ns2.phoenixnap.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0