Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig org.afilias-nst.info. NS
Answer
org.afilias-nst.info. 2 NS d0.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.afilias-nst.info. 2 NS a0.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.afilias-nst.info. 2 NS b2.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.afilias-nst.info. 2 NS a2.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.afilias-nst.info. 2 NS b0.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.afilias-nst.info. 2 NS c0.org.afilias-nst.info.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
a0.org.afilias-nst.info. 2 A 199.19.56.1
b0.org.afilias-nst.org. 172474 A 199.19.54.1
b2.org.afilias-nst.org. 94796 A 199.249.120.1
c0.org.afilias-nst.info. 2 A 199.19.53.1
d0.org.afilias-nst.org. 172474 A 199.19.57.1
a0.org.afilias-nst.info. 2 AAAA 2001:500:e:0:0:0:0:1
b0.org.afilias-nst.org. 172474 AAAA 2001:500:c:0:0:0:0:1
b2.org.afilias-nst.org. 94796 AAAA 2001:500:48:0:0:0:0:1
c0.org.afilias-nst.info. 2 AAAA 2001:500:b:0:0:0:0:1
d0.org.afilias-nst.org. 172474 AAAA 2001:500:f:0:0:0:0:1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0