Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ASNIC.ORG. NS
Answer
ASNIC.ORG. 5 NS ns12.domaincontrol.com.
ASNIC.ORG. 5 NS ns11.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0