Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 38.99.82.in-addr.arpa. NS
Answer
38.99.82.in-addr.arpa. 1 NS b.ns.ip-only.net.
38.99.82.in-addr.arpa. 1 NS a.ns.ip-only.net.
38.99.82.in-addr.arpa. 1 NS c.ns.ip-only.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
a.ns.ip-only.net. 1 A 212.112.160.42
b.ns.ip-only.net. 1 A 212.112.163.90
c.ns.ip-only.net. 1 A 83.145.7.217
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0