Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mcshosts.net. NS
Answer
mcshosts.net. 5 NS ns-281.awsdns-35.com.
mcshosts.net. 5 NS ns-958.awsdns-55.net.
mcshosts.net. 5 NS ns-1069.awsdns-05.org.
mcshosts.net. 5 NS ns-1753.awsdns-27.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0