knipp.net CNAME records

CNAME Canonical name
Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig knipp.net. NS

Answer

knipp.net. 5 NS ns17.knipp.net. knipp.net. 5 NS ns3.knipp.de. knipp.net. 5 NS ns2.knipp.de.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

ns17.knipp.net. 5 A 195.253.51.61 ns17.knipp.net. 5 AAAA 2a01:5b0:2:56:0:0:0:3d . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0