Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig veluriyam-mirage.org. NS
Answer
veluriyam-mirage.org. 5 NS santino.ns.cloudflare.com.
veluriyam-mirage.org. 5 NS ligia.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0