Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mandiradesigns.com. NS
Answer
mandiradesigns.com. 5 NS ns31.domaincontrol.com.
mandiradesigns.com. 5 NS ns32.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0