Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hvvc.us. NS
Answer
hvvc.us. 3 NS ns1.hivelocity.net.
hvvc.us. 3 NS ns2.hivelocity.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0