dnic-web.directnic.net has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig dnic-web.directnic.net. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
directnic.net. 3600 SOA ns1.dnsimple.com. admin.dnsimple.com. 1630476126 86400 7200 604800 300
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0