Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig h2.nexus. NS
Answer
h2.nexus. 5 NS hope.ns.cloudflare.com.
h2.nexus. 5 NS amit.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0