Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig fyi. NS
Answer
fyi. 5 NS v0n2.nic.fyi.
fyi. 5 NS v2n0.nic.fyi.
fyi. 5 NS v0n0.nic.fyi.
fyi. 5 NS v2n1.nic.fyi.
fyi. 5 NS v0n1.nic.fyi.
fyi. 5 NS v0n3.nic.fyi.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
v0n0.nic.fyi. 141401 A 65.22.20.42
v0n1.nic.fyi. 141401 A 65.22.21.42
v0n2.nic.fyi. 141401 A 65.22.22.42
v0n3.nic.fyi. 141401 A 161.232.10.42
v2n0.nic.fyi. 141401 A 65.22.23.42
v2n1.nic.fyi. 141401 A 161.232.11.42
v0n0.nic.fyi. 141401 AAAA 2a01:8840:16:0:0:0:0:42
v0n1.nic.fyi. 141401 AAAA 2a01:8840:17:0:0:0:0:42
v0n2.nic.fyi. 141401 AAAA 2a01:8840:18:0:0:0:0:42
v0n3.nic.fyi. 141401 AAAA 2a01:8840:f4:0:0:0:0:42
v2n0.nic.fyi. 141401 AAAA 2a01:8840:19:0:0:0:0:42
v2n1.nic.fyi. 141401 AAAA 2a01:8840:f5:0:0:0:0:42
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0