Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mlrcd.net. NS
Answer
mlrcd.net. 5 NS pns34.cloudns.net.
mlrcd.net. 5 NS pns32.cloudns.net.
mlrcd.net. 5 NS pns31.cloudns.net.
mlrcd.net. 5 NS pns33.cloudns.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0