Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig startuplabs.cc. NS
Answer
startuplabs.cc. 5 NS ajay.ns.cloudflare.com.
startuplabs.cc. 5 NS kiki.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0