Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hostedvm2txt.com. NS
Answer
hostedvm2txt.com. 5 NS ns2qvz.name.com.
hostedvm2txt.com. 5 NS ns4lpv.name.com.
hostedvm2txt.com. 5 NS ns1kwy.name.com.
hostedvm2txt.com. 5 NS ns3gxy.name.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0