Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig zoicloud.au. NS
Answer
zoicloud.au. 5 NS elijah.ns.cloudflare.com.
zoicloud.au. 5 NS ollie.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0