Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 295.ca. NS
Answer
295.ca. 5 NS authns1.295.ca.
295.ca. 5 NS authns2.295.ca.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
authns1.295.ca. 5 A 208.72.120.203
authns2.295.ca. 5 A 208.79.56.203
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0