Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig rainyville.org. NS
Answer
rainyville.org. 5 NS fonzie.ns.cloudflare.com.
rainyville.org. 5 NS kristin.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0