Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nic.live. NS
Answer
nic.live. 5 NS v0n3.nic.live.
nic.live. 5 NS v0n1.nic.live.
nic.live. 5 NS v0n0.nic.live.
nic.live. 5 NS v0n2.nic.live.
nic.live. 5 NS v2n1.nic.live.
nic.live. 5 NS v2n0.nic.live.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
v0n0.nic.live. 82704 A 65.22.20.1
v0n1.nic.live. 82704 A 65.22.21.1
v0n2.nic.live. 86195 A 65.22.22.1
v0n3.nic.live. 86195 A 161.232.10.1
v2n0.nic.live. 82704 A 65.22.23.1
v2n1.nic.live. 74577 A 161.232.11.1
v0n0.nic.live. 82704 AAAA 2a01:8840:16:0:0:0:0:1
v0n1.nic.live. 82704 AAAA 2a01:8840:17:0:0:0:0:1
v0n2.nic.live. 86195 AAAA 2a01:8840:18:0:0:0:0:1
v0n3.nic.live. 86195 AAAA 2a01:8840:f4:0:0:0:0:1
v2n0.nic.live. 82704 AAAA 2a01:8840:19:0:0:0:0:1
v2n1.nic.live. 74577 AAAA 2a01:8840:f5:0:0:0:0:1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0