Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig tss2.gov.do. NS
Answer
tss2.gov.do. 2 NS chip.ns.cloudflare.com.
tss2.gov.do. 2 NS dell.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0