Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nic.email. NS
Answer
nic.email. 5 NS v0n1.nic.email.
nic.email. 5 NS v0n0.nic.email.
nic.email. 5 NS v0n3.nic.email.
nic.email. 5 NS v2n0.nic.email.
nic.email. 5 NS v2n1.nic.email.
nic.email. 5 NS v0n2.nic.email.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
v0n0.nic.email. 78508 A 65.22.24.35
v0n1.nic.email. 114440 A 65.22.25.35
v0n3.nic.email. 44287 A 161.232.12.35
v2n0.nic.email. 63008 A 65.22.27.35
v2n1.nic.email. 94465 A 161.232.13.35
v0n0.nic.email. 78508 AAAA 2a01:8840:1a:0:0:0:0:35
v0n1.nic.email. 114440 AAAA 2a01:8840:1b:0:0:0:0:35
v0n3.nic.email. 44287 AAAA 2a01:8840:f6:0:0:0:0:35
v2n0.nic.email. 63008 AAAA 2a01:8840:1d:0:0:0:0:35
v2n1.nic.email. 94465 AAAA 2a01:8840:f7:0:0:0:0:35
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0