above.com CNAME records

CNAME Canonical name
Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig above.com. NS

Answer

above.com. 4 NS ns2.trellian.com. above.com. 4 NS ns1.trellian.com.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

ns1.trellian.com. 4 A 103.224.182.4 ns2.trellian.com. 4 A 103.224.212.4 . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0