Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ip-40-160-56.us. NS
Answer
ip-40-160-56.us. 3 NS ns100.ovh.us.
ip-40-160-56.us. 3 NS dns100.ovh.us.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0