Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig as41960.net. NS
Answer
as41960.net. 5 NS ns1.dnszones.eu.
as41960.net. 5 NS ns3.dnszones.be.
as41960.net. 5 NS ns2.dnszones.nl.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0