Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mailrelay3.com. NS
Answer
mailrelay3.com. 5 NS ns1.mailrelay3.com.
mailrelay3.com. 5 NS ns2.mailrelay3.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.mailrelay3.com. 5 A 185.103.9.240
ns2.mailrelay3.com. 5 A 185.103.9.241
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0