Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig above.net. NS
Answer
above.net. 5 NS ns.above.net.
above.net. 5 NS ns3.above.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns.above.net. 5 A 207.126.96.162
ns3.above.net. 5 A 207.126.105.146
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0