afternic.com CNAME DNS records

CNAME Canonical name

Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig afternic.com. NS

Answer

afternic.com. 4 NS cns1.secureserver.net. afternic.com. 4 NS cns2.secureserver.net.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

cns1.secureserver.net. 4 A 97.74.96.100 cns2.secureserver.net. 4 A 173.201.64.100 cns1.secureserver.net. 4 AAAA 2603:5:2100:0:0:0:0:64 cns2.secureserver.net. 4 AAAA 2603:5:2200:0:0:0:0:64 . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0