Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig kbrod.net. NS
Answer
kbrod.net. 5 NS ws.kbrod.net.
kbrod.net. 5 NS ns.kbrod.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns.kbrod.net. 5 A 195.234.84.1
ws.kbrod.net. 5 A 195.234.84.3
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0