Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig stellarllc.net. NS
Answer
stellarllc.net. 5 NS ns2.stellarllc.net.
stellarllc.net. 5 NS ns1.stellarllc.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.stellarllc.net. 5 A 66.234.112.70
ns2.stellarllc.net. 5 A 66.234.112.71
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0