Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig bacontonga.net. NS
Answer
bacontonga.net. 4 NS dns2.cnsnext.com.
bacontonga.net. 4 NS dns1.cnsnext.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
dns1.cnsnext.com. 4 A 64.39.128.140
dns2.cnsnext.com. 4 A 64.39.128.141
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0