Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ip-147-135-36.us. NS
Answer
ip-147-135-36.us. 5 NS ns100.ovh.us.
ip-147-135-36.us. 5 NS dns100.ovh.us.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0