Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thecomplianceready.com. NS
Answer
thecomplianceready.com. 5 NS ns20.domaincontrol.com.
thecomplianceready.com. 5 NS ns19.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0