Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig neolane.net. NS
Answer
neolane.net. 5 NS ns-682.awsdns-21.net.
neolane.net. 5 NS ns-114.awsdns-14.com.
neolane.net. 5 NS ns-1680.awsdns-18.co.uk.
neolane.net. 5 NS ns-1439.awsdns-51.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0