Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig netlinkify.com. NS
Answer
netlinkify.com. 1 NS weston.ns.cloudflare.com.
netlinkify.com. 1 NS melody.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0