Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig verify.hn. NS
Answer
verify.hn. 1 NS ns2.dan.com.
verify.hn. 1 NS ns1.dan.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0