Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig inomial.net. NS
Answer
inomial.net. 2 NS sofia.ns.cloudflare.com.
inomial.net. 2 NS nash.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0