Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig datalinkarena.com. NS
Answer
datalinkarena.com. 5 NS ns1.datalinkarena.com.
datalinkarena.com. 5 NS ns2.datalinkarena.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.datalinkarena.com. 5 A 198.12.127.66
ns2.datalinkarena.com. 5 A 198.12.127.79
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0