Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig adou.edu.do. NS
Answer
adou.edu.do. 3 NS ns1.rsweb.com.do.
adou.edu.do. 3 NS ns2.rsweb.com.do.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0