Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig kionetworks.com. NS
Answer
kionetworks.com. 4 NS ns2.kionetworks.net.
kionetworks.com. 4 NS ns1.kionetworks.net.
kionetworks.com. 4 NS ns3.kionetworks.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.kionetworks.net. 4 A 200.77.231.205
ns2.kionetworks.net. 4 A 200.77.237.246
ns3.kionetworks.net. 4 A 200.77.227.157
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0