Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ip-198-50-252.net. NS
Answer
ip-198-50-252.net. 5 NS dns10.ovh.ca.
ip-198-50-252.net. 5 NS ns10.ovh.ca.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0