Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thevilages.com. NS
Answer
thevilages.com. 4 NS ns2.thevilages.com.
thevilages.com. 4 NS ns1.thevilages.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.thevilages.com. 4 A 217.13.101.236
ns2.thevilages.com. 4 A 96.47.162.8
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0