mx1.cogentco.com has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mx1.cogentco.com. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
cogentco.com. 10581 SOA auth1.dns.cogentco.com. dns.cogentco.com. 2026020802 10800 3600 604800 43200
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0