Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mcdlv.net. NS
Answer
mcdlv.net. 5 NS pdns177.ultradns.com.
mcdlv.net. 5 NS pdns177.ultradns.biz.
mcdlv.net. 5 NS pdns177.ultradns.org.
mcdlv.net. 5 NS pdns177.ultradns.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0