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