Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ace-host.net. NS
Answer
ace-host.net. 5 NS anna.ns.cloudflare.com.
ace-host.net. 5 NS todd.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0