Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig r-tco.com. NS
Answer
r-tco.com. 4 NS ns07.domaincontrol.com.
r-tco.com. 4 NS ns08.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0