Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig theconsole.netregistry.net. NS
Answer
theconsole.netregistry.net. 5 NS ns2.netregistry.net.
theconsole.netregistry.net. 5 NS ns3.netregistry.net.
theconsole.netregistry.net. 5 NS ns1.netregistry.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0