Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig NOVA53.NET. NS
Answer
nova53.net. 4 NS DRACO.NS.NOVA53.NET.
nova53.net. 4 NS CYGNUS.NS.NOVA53.ORG.
nova53.net. 4 NS ORION.NS.NOVA53.NET.
nova53.net. 4 NS PERSEUS.NS.NOVA53.COM.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
draco.ns.nova53.net. 4 A 193.30.33.30
orion.ns.nova53.net. 4 A 193.30.32.30
draco.ns.nova53.net. 4 AAAA 2a0c:8540:2:0:0:0:0:5353
orion.ns.nova53.net. 4 AAAA 2a0c:8540:1:0:0:0:0:5353
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0