Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 101DOMAIN.com. NS
Answer
101DOMAIN.com. 2 NS nina.ns.cloudflare.com.
101DOMAIN.com. 2 NS cody.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0