Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig unapec.edu.do. NS
Answer
unapec.edu.do. 4 NS jarred.ns.cloudflare.com.
unapec.edu.do. 4 NS rachel.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0