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