Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ca.x360cloud.axcient.com. NS
Answer
ca.x360cloud.axcient.com. 5 NS ns1.p201.dns.oraclecloud.net.
ca.x360cloud.axcient.com. 5 NS ns2.p201.dns.oraclecloud.net.
ca.x360cloud.axcient.com. 5 NS ns3.p201.dns.oraclecloud.net.
ca.x360cloud.axcient.com. 5 NS ns4.p201.dns.oraclecloud.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0