Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nerocloud.io. NS
Answer
nerocloud.io. 5 NS rose.ns.cloudflare.com.
nerocloud.io. 5 NS charles.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0