echostar.com CNAME records

CNAME Canonical name
Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig echostar.com. NS

Answer

echostar.com. 4 NS ns2.hns.com. echostar.com. 4 NS ns1.hns.com. echostar.com. 4 NS ns5.echostar.com.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

ns1.hns.com. 4 A 69.35.42.41 ns2.hns.com. 4 A 69.35.42.42 ns5.echostar.com. 4 A 139.85.4.15 . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0