Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cnode.io. NS
Answer
cnode.io. 2 NS ns-a3.cnode.io.
cnode.io. 2 NS ns-a2.cnode.io.
cnode.io. 2 NS ns-a1.cnode.io.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns-a1.cnode.io. 2 A 157.7.33.88
ns-a2.cnode.io. 2 A 150.95.23.148
ns-a3.cnode.io. 2 A 150.95.19.148
ns-a1.cnode.io. 2 AAAA 2400:8500:3000:0:0:0:0:88
ns-a2.cnode.io. 2 AAAA 2404:8680:1101:310:0:0:0:53
ns-a3.cnode.io. 2 AAAA 2404:f080:1101:310:0:0:0:53
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0