meritdns.com CNAME records

CNAME Canonical name
Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig meritdns.com. NS

Answer

meritdns.com. 5 NS ns2.meritdns.com. meritdns.com. 5 NS ns1.meritdns.com.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

ns1.meritdns.com. 5 A 167.114.158.9 ns2.meritdns.com. 5 A 167.114.158.9 . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0