ns1.yahoo.com has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ns1.yahoo.com. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
yahoo.com. 600 SOA ns1.yahoo.com. hostmaster.yahoo-inc.com. 2026022605 3600 300 1814400 600
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0