Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig accoladesconsulting.com. NS
Answer
accoladesconsulting.com. 5 NS ns-1050.awsdns-03.org.
accoladesconsulting.com. 5 NS ns-386.awsdns-48.com.
accoladesconsulting.com. 5 NS ns-294.awsdns-36.com.
accoladesconsulting.com. 5 NS ns-1345.awsdns-40.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0