Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig info. NS
Answer
info. 5 NS a2.info.afilias-nst.info.
info. 5 NS c0.info.afilias-nst.info.
info. 5 NS b2.info.afilias-nst.org.
info. 5 NS a0.info.afilias-nst.info.
info. 5 NS d0.info.afilias-nst.org.
info. 5 NS b0.info.afilias-nst.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
a0.info.afilias-nst.info. 150792 A 199.254.31.1
a2.info.afilias-nst.info. 150792 A 199.249.113.1
c0.info.afilias-nst.info. 150792 A 199.254.49.1
a0.info.afilias-nst.info. 150792 AAAA 2001:500:19:0:0:0:0:1
a2.info.afilias-nst.info. 150792 AAAA 2001:500:41:0:0:0:0:1
c0.info.afilias-nst.info. 150792 AAAA 2001:500:1b:0:0:0:0:1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0