Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nether.net. NS
Answer
nether.net. 5 NS anyns.pch.net.
nether.net. 5 NS puck.nether.net.
nether.net. 5 NS ams.nether.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ams.nether.net. 5 A 165.254.255.4
puck.nether.net. 5 A 204.42.254.5
anyns.pch.net. 5 A 204.61.216.4
ams.nether.net. 5 AAAA 2001:728:1808:0:0:0:0:4
puck.nether.net. 5 AAAA 2602:fe55:5:0:0:0:0:5
anyns.pch.net. 5 AAAA 2001:500:14:6004:ad:0:0:1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0