Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ppsmtp.com. NS
Answer
ppsmtp.com. 4 NS ns2.p68.dns.oraclecloud.net.
ppsmtp.com. 4 NS ns3.p68.dns.oraclecloud.net.
ppsmtp.com. 4 NS ns4.p68.dns.oraclecloud.net.
ppsmtp.com. 4 NS ns1.p68.dns.oraclecloud.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0