Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig pafi.gov.do. NS
Answer
pafi.gov.do. 5 NS carmelo.ns.cloudflare.com.
pafi.gov.do. 5 NS tess.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0