Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig fishingnots.im. NS
Answer
fishingnots.im. 4 NS ernest.ns.cloudflare.com.
fishingnots.im. 4 NS maeve.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
maeve.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 A 108.162.194.45
maeve.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 A 162.159.38.45
maeve.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 A 172.64.34.45
ernest.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 A 108.162.193.164
ernest.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 A 172.64.33.164
ernest.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 A 173.245.59.164
maeve.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 AAAA 2606:4700:50:0:0:0:a29f:262d
maeve.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 AAAA 2803:f800:50:0:0:0:6ca2:c22d
maeve.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 AAAA 2a06:98c1:50:0:0:0:ac40:222d
ernest.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 AAAA 2606:4700:58:0:0:0:adf5:3ba4
ernest.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 AAAA 2803:f800:50:0:0:0:6ca2:c1a4
ernest.ns.cloudflare.com. 2 AAAA 2a06:98c1:50:0:0:0:ac40:21a4
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0