Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig sotaconnect.net. NS
Answer
sotaconnect.net. 2 NS ns2.sotaconnect.net.
sotaconnect.net. 2 NS ns1.sotaconnect.net.
sotaconnect.net. 2 NS ns3.sotaconnect.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.sotaconnect.net. 2 A 83.137.225.100
ns2.sotaconnect.net. 2 A 83.137.225.120
ns3.sotaconnect.net. 2 A 46.255.255.100
ns1.sotaconnect.net. 1 AAAA 2a00:d300:100:1:0:0:0:53
ns2.sotaconnect.net. 1 AAAA 2a00:d300:100:2:0:0:0:53
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0