Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mycci.net. NS
Answer
mycci.net. 5 NS ans02.consolidated.net.
mycci.net. 5 NS ans01.consolidated.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ans01.consolidated.net. 5 A 72.22.1.3
ans02.consolidated.net. 5 A 72.22.1.4
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0