Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig acquireap.com. NS
Answer
acquireap.com. 4 NS ns-747.awsdns-29.net.
acquireap.com. 4 NS ns-451.awsdns-56.com.
acquireap.com. 4 NS ns-1550.awsdns-01.co.uk.
acquireap.com. 4 NS ns-1447.awsdns-52.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0