Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig verixi.com. NS
Answer
verixi.com. 5 NS ns3.verixi.net.
verixi.com. 5 NS ns2.verixi.net.
verixi.com. 5 NS ns1.verixi.net.
verixi.com. 5 NS ns4.verixi.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.verixi.net. 5 A 109.69.216.8
ns2.verixi.net. 5 A 109.69.220.8
ns3.verixi.net. 5 A 192.174.68.123
ns4.verixi.net. 5 A 176.97.158.123
ns1.verixi.net. 5 AAAA 2a00:1528:3201:101:0:0:0:8
ns2.verixi.net. 5 AAAA 2a00:1528:3202:102:0:0:0:8
ns3.verixi.net. 5 AAAA 2001:67c:1bc:0:0:0:0:123
ns4.verixi.net. 5 AAAA 2001:67c:10b8:0:0:0:0:123
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0