nic-direct.de CNAME records

CNAME Canonical name
Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.

Question and response

Question

dig nic-direct.de. NS

Answer

nic-direct.de. 5 NS ns1.dnsresolve.net. nic-direct.de. 5 NS ns2.dnsresolve.net.

Authority

The response has no authority records.

Additional

ns1.dnsresolve.net. 5 A 193.254.184.231 ns2.dnsresolve.net. 5 A 193.254.185.231 . 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0