Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig webnick.net. NS
Answer
webnick.net. 5 NS ns102.raxhosting.com.
webnick.net. 5 NS ns112.raxhosting.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0