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