Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig netplace.com. NS
Answer
netplace.com. 3 NS dns.noris.de.
netplace.com. 3 NS dns.noris.net.
netplace.com. 3 NS dns.noris.ch.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
dns.noris.ch. 3 A 194.31.2.65
dns.noris.de. 3 A 192.109.102.65
dns.noris.net. 3 A 213.95.0.65
dns.noris.de. 3 AAAA 2001:780:53d2:0:0:0:0:53
dns.noris.net. 3 AAAA 2001:780:53d1:0:0:0:0:53
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0