Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig gsi-network.io. NS
Answer
gsi-network.io. 5 NS ns111.ovh.net.
gsi-network.io. 5 NS dns111.ovh.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0