Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig BRAILLE.ORG. NS
Answer
braille.org. 3 NS pdns02.domaincontrol.com.
braille.org. 3 NS pdns01.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
pdns01.domaincontrol.com. 3 A 97.74.110.50
pdns02.domaincontrol.com. 3 A 173.201.78.50
pdns01.domaincontrol.com. 3 AAAA 2603:5:21e0:0:0:0:0:32
pdns02.domaincontrol.com. 3 AAAA 2603:5:22e0:0:0:0:0:32
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0