Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 8bitscreative.com. NS
Answer
8bitscreative.com. 1 NS ns7.zadns.co.za.
8bitscreative.com. 1 NS ns8.zadns.co.za.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns7.zadns.co.za. 1 A 102.214.8.48
ns8.zadns.co.za. 1 A 102.214.8.90
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0