Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ford.com. NS
Answer
ford.com. 3 NS extdns002.ford.com.
ford.com. 3 NS extdns007.ford.com.
ford.com. 3 NS extdns010.ford.com.
ford.com. 3 NS dns006.ford.com.
ford.com. 3 NS extdns001.ford.com.
ford.com. 3 NS dns005.ford.com.
ford.com. 3 NS extdns008.ford.com.
ford.com. 3 NS extdns009.ford.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
dns005.ford.com. 3 A 19.12.18.20
dns006.ford.com. 3 A 19.12.34.81
extdns001.ford.com. 3 A 19.12.77.20
extdns002.ford.com. 3 A 19.12.93.20
extdns007.ford.com. 3 A 19.12.97.134
extdns008.ford.com. 3 A 19.12.113.135
extdns009.ford.com. 3 A 202.160.140.32
extdns010.ford.com. 3 A 101.52.131.32
extdns007.ford.com. 3 AAAA 2620:0:402:2010:0:ffff:130c:6186
extdns008.ford.com. 3 AAAA 2620:0:403:2010:0:ffff:130c:7187
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0