Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mschosting.org. NS
Answer
mschosting.org. 3 NS zara.ns.cloudflare.com.
mschosting.org. 3 NS cody.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0