Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig qary-aviator.com. NS
Answer
qary-aviator.com. 5 NS ns2.qary-aviator.com.
qary-aviator.com. 5 NS ns1.qary-aviator.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.qary-aviator.com. 5 A 192.227.122.137
ns2.qary-aviator.com. 5 A 192.227.122.138
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0