Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 00-play.com. NS
Answer
00-play.com. 1 NS ns-857.awsdns-43.net.
00-play.com. 1 NS ns-304.awsdns-38.com.
00-play.com. 1 NS ns-1076.awsdns-06.org.
00-play.com. 1 NS ns-970.awsdns-57.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0