Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nic.company. NS
Answer
nic.company. 5 NS v2n0.nic.company.
nic.company. 5 NS v0n1.nic.company.
nic.company. 5 NS v0n2.nic.company.
nic.company. 5 NS v0n0.nic.company.
nic.company. 5 NS v0n3.nic.company.
nic.company. 5 NS v2n1.nic.company.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
v0n0.nic.company. 57993 A 65.22.24.36
v0n1.nic.company. 28178 A 65.22.25.36
v0n2.nic.company. 57993 A 65.22.26.36
v0n3.nic.company. 28178 A 161.232.12.36
v2n0.nic.company. 81756 A 65.22.27.36
v2n1.nic.company. 57993 A 161.232.13.36
v0n0.nic.company. 57993 AAAA 2a01:8840:1a:0:0:0:0:36
v0n1.nic.company. 28178 AAAA 2a01:8840:1b:0:0:0:0:36
v0n2.nic.company. 57993 AAAA 2a01:8840:1c:0:0:0:0:36
v0n3.nic.company. 28178 AAAA 2a01:8840:f6:0:0:0:0:36
v2n0.nic.company. 81756 AAAA 2a01:8840:1d:0:0:0:0:36
v2n1.nic.company. 57993 AAAA 2a01:8840:f7:0:0:0:0:36
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0