Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nxcli.net. NS
Answer
nxcli.net. 2 NS vicky.ns.cloudflare.com.
nxcli.net. 2 NS adi.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0