Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig grpitsrv.com. NS
Answer
grpitsrv.com. 1 NS ns3-05.azure-dns.org.
grpitsrv.com. 1 NS ns4-05.azure-dns.info.
grpitsrv.com. 1 NS ns1-05.azure-dns.com.
grpitsrv.com. 1 NS ns2-05.azure-dns.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0