Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig twelve99-cust.net. NS
Answer
twelve99-cust.net. 5 NS nsp.dnsnode.net.
twelve99-cust.net. 5 NS nsu.dnsnode.net.
twelve99-cust.net. 5 NS nordic1.dnsnode.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0