Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig flars.net. NS
Answer
flars.net. 5 NS dns.focolare.org.
flars.net. 5 NS hdns2.tiscali.it.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0