Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig partnerconsole.net. NS
Answer
partnerconsole.net. 3 NS ns-973.awsdns-57.net.
partnerconsole.net. 3 NS ns-1553.awsdns-02.co.uk.
partnerconsole.net. 3 NS ns-135.awsdns-16.com.
partnerconsole.net. 3 NS ns-1508.awsdns-60.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0