Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig utd.edu.do. NS
Answer
utd.edu.do. 5 NS ns1.wixdns.net.
utd.edu.do. 5 NS ns0.wixdns.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0