a.AU has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig a.AU. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
au. 3327 SOA q.au. hostmaster.donuts.email. 1772578732 7200 900 1209600 3600
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0