Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig aboutkika.net. NS
Answer
aboutkika.net. 5 NS ns2.aboutkika.net.
aboutkika.net. 5 NS ns1.aboutkika.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.aboutkika.net. 5 A 167.148.173.45
ns2.aboutkika.net. 5 A 173.232.67.247
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0