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