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