I am trying to setup SSL for my heroku app. I am using the hostname based SSL add-on. The heroku documentation states the following:
Hostname based SSL will
DNSimple offers an ALIAS record type to address this need. You can create an alias from your root domain (a.k.a zone apex) pointing to a CNAME. Read more about it here:
http://blog.dnsimple.com/introducing-the-alias-record/