Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig da.direct. NS
Answer
da.direct. 5 NS ns3.da.direct.
da.direct. 5 NS ns1.da.direct.
da.direct. 5 NS ns2.da.direct.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.da.direct. 5 A 46.62.164.150
ns2.da.direct. 5 A 161.35.4.94
ns3.da.direct. 5 A 159.223.18.246
ns1.da.direct. 5 AAAA 2a01:4f9:c012:af88:0:0:0:1
ns2.da.direct. 5 AAAA 2604:a880:400:d0:0:0:16c9:6001
ns3.da.direct. 5 AAAA 2a03:b0c0:3:d0:0:0:cbc:8001
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0