Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig forwardy.net. NS
Answer
forwardy.net. 5 NS zns02.datahotel.ne.jp.
forwardy.net. 5 NS zns01.datahotel.ne.jp.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0