Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig smdaneb.com. NS
Answer
smdaneb.com. 5 NS tani.ns.cloudflare.com.
smdaneb.com. 5 NS lynn.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
tani.ns.cloudflare.com. 1 A 108.162.192.224
tani.ns.cloudflare.com. 1 A 172.64.32.224
tani.ns.cloudflare.com. 1 A 173.245.58.224
tani.ns.cloudflare.com. 1 AAAA 2606:4700:50:0:0:0:adf5:3ae0
tani.ns.cloudflare.com. 1 AAAA 2803:f800:50:0:0:0:6ca2:c0e0
tani.ns.cloudflare.com. 1 AAAA 2a06:98c1:50:0:0:0:ac40:20e0
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0