Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ASNIC.INFO. NS
Answer
asnic.info. 5 NS ns44.domaincontrol.com.
asnic.info. 5 NS ns43.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0