apple.com CNAME DNS records

CNAME Canonical name

Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig apple.com. NS

Answer

apple.com. 5 NS a.ns.apple.com. apple.com. 5 NS d.ns.apple.com. apple.com. 5 NS c.ns.apple.com. apple.com. 5 NS b.ns.apple.com.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

a.ns.apple.com. 5 A 17.253.200.1 b.ns.apple.com. 5 A 17.253.207.1 c.ns.apple.com. 5 A 204.19.119.1 d.ns.apple.com. 5 A 204.26.57.1 a.ns.apple.com. 5 AAAA 2620:149:ae0:0:0:0:0:53 b.ns.apple.com. 5 AAAA 2620:149:ae7:0:0:0:0:53 c.ns.apple.com. 5 AAAA 2620:171:800:714:0:0:0:1 d.ns.apple.com. 5 AAAA 2620:171:801:714:0:0:0:1 . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0