Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig penthouse.net.do. NS
Answer
penthouse.net.do. 5 NS ns08.gcd-dns.com.
penthouse.net.do. 5 NS ns07.gcd-dns.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0