Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig yoursrs-accept.com. NS
Answer
yoursrs-accept.com. 5 NS ns2.yoursrs.com.
yoursrs-accept.com. 5 NS ns1.yoursrs.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0