Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig b2cdistribution.com. NS
Answer
b2cdistribution.com. 5 NS sofia.ns.cloudflare.com.
b2cdistribution.com. 5 NS lex.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0