Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cristorey.edu.do. NS
Answer
cristorey.edu.do. 4 NS ns4202.banahosting.com.
cristorey.edu.do. 4 NS ns4201.banahosting.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0