ns3.directnic.com has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ns3.directnic.com. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
directnic.com. 1478 SOA ns1.dnsimple.com. admin.dnsimple.com. 1630574573 86400 7200 604800 300
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0