Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nic.al. NS
Answer
nic.al. 5 NS ns2.nic.al.
nic.al. 5 NS ns1.nic.al.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.nic.al. 5 A 194.1.149.230
ns2.nic.al. 5 A 194.1.149.229
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0