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