Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thegrneral.com. NS
Answer
thegrneral.com. 5 NS ns2.thegrneral.com.
thegrneral.com. 5 NS ns1.thegrneral.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.thegrneral.com. 5 A 51.77.64.8
ns2.thegrneral.com. 5 A 51.77.72.81
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0