Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig domainsredirect.com. NS
Answer
domainsredirect.com. 5 NS name1.domainsredirect.com.
domainsredirect.com. 5 NS ns2.rapidns.com.
domainsredirect.com. 5 NS ns1.rapidns.com.
domainsredirect.com. 5 NS name2.domainsredirect.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
name1.domainsredirect.com. 5 A 207.106.22.124
name2.domainsredirect.com. 5 A 206.183.111.241
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0