Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig icm.mil.do. NS
Answer
icm.mil.do. 5 NS candy.ns.cloudflare.com.
icm.mil.do. 5 NS karl.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0