✓ Solved
The documentation for the NS record has an error
The entry for NS (https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/dns-overview/#ns)
example.com NS ns1.linode.com.
has a . after com
I believe this is an error? Reporting in case others run into this. Thank you.
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✓ Best Answer
I've seen some DNS providers that require a final period and some that don't. I don't think it makes a difference here. In the docs in the link above there are lots of examples that have the dot and that don't.
I would think that if this was an issue it would have been raised long before now!!!
I'm sure someone from Linode will be here to explain it.
(Disclosure: I don't use Linode for DNS services… I use the domain's registry, so everything above is conjecture!!)