Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig al. NS
Answer
al. 5 NS munnari.oz.au.
al. 5 NS rip.psg.com.
al. 5 NS ns1.nic.al.
al. 5 NS nsx.nic.al.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.nic.al. 172683 A 194.1.149.230
nsx.nic.al. 134955 A 194.0.11.108
rip.psg.com. 5 A 147.28.0.39
munnari.oz.au. 5 A 202.29.151.3
nsx.nic.al. 134955 AAAA 2001:678:e:108:0:0:0:53
rip.psg.com. 5 AAAA 2001:418:1:0:0:0:0:39
munnari.oz.au. 5 AAAA 2001:3c8:9007:1:0:0:0:21
munnari.oz.au. 5 AAAA 2001:3c8:9009:181:0:0:0:2
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0