Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig zap-hosting.com. NS
Answer
zap-hosting.com. 5 NS edna.ns.cloudflare.com.
zap-hosting.com. 5 NS josh.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0