Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig piratel.com. NS
Answer
piratel.com. 4 NS martin.ns.cloudflare.com.
piratel.com. 4 NS monroe.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0