Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mccormickes.com. NS
Answer
mccormickes.com. 4 NS ns2.dyna-ns.net.
mccormickes.com. 4 NS ns1.dyna-ns.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.dyna-ns.net. 4 A 162.159.26.92
ns1.dyna-ns.net. 4 A 162.159.27.158
ns2.dyna-ns.net. 4 A 162.159.24.5
ns2.dyna-ns.net. 4 A 162.159.25.5
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0