Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hifa.mil.do. NS
Answer
hifa.mil.do. 1 NS jamie.ns.cloudflare.com.
hifa.mil.do. 1 NS chuck.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0