Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig exodus.cloud. NS
Answer
exodus.cloud. 1 NS ns1.ihsystem.com.
exodus.cloud. 1 NS ns2.ihsystem.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0