Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hostcontrol.com. NS
Answer
hostcontrol.com. 3 NS ns3-34.azure-dns.org.
hostcontrol.com. 3 NS ns1-34.azure-dns.com.
hostcontrol.com. 3 NS ns2-34.azure-dns.net.
hostcontrol.com. 3 NS ns4-34.azure-dns.info.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0