Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig dotsconnecthosting.com. NS
Answer
dotsconnecthosting.com. 4 NS ns1.dotsconnecthosting.com.
dotsconnecthosting.com. 4 NS ns2.dotsconnecthosting.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.dotsconnecthosting.com. 4 A 63.150.75.1
ns2.dotsconnecthosting.com. 4 A 65.240.185.1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0