ngdc.net CNAME records

CNAME Canonical name
Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig ngdc.net. NS

Answer

ngdc.net. 5 NS authns2.ngdc.net. ngdc.net. 5 NS authns1.ngdc.net.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

authns1.ngdc.net. 5 A 217.30.38.181 authns2.ngdc.net. 5 A 217.30.38.27 . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0