Qklnk.co links not resolvable behind pfs 2.3

[iamzam]

for some strange reason I can't seem to open qklnk.co links from behind pfsense.  I am using pfsense as my single dns resolver and even on the pfsense host itself it can't lookup qklnk.co at localhost:

$ ping qklnk.co
ping: cannot resolve qklnk.co: Unknown host

[2.3-BETA][admin@pfs.dv.loc]/root: dig @127.0.0.1 any qklnk.co

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4 <<>> @127.0.0.1 any qklnk.co
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 25647
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;qklnk.co.			IN	ANY

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Mar 15 01:23:29 EDT 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 37

[2.3-BETA][admin@pfs.dv.loc]/root: dig @8.8.8.8 any qklnk.co

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4 <<>> @8.8.8.8 any qklnk.co
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 611
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;qklnk.co.			IN	ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
qklnk.co.		881	IN	CNAME	c1.social1.zenedge.net.

;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Mar 15 01:23:39 EDT 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 73

could it be that the root or the domain is a cname which seems to be against rfc 1034? https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt

[cmb]

That domain is broken.
http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=qklnk.co

Failed to find name servers for QKLNK.co (parent of qklnk.co/IN).

Delegation not found at parent.
No delegation could be found at the parent, making your zone unreachable from the Internet.

Not enough nameserver information was found to test the zone qklnk.co, but an IP address lookup succeeded in spite of that.