Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig active-w.net. NS
Answer
active-w.net. 5 NS ns-245.awsdns-30.com.
active-w.net. 5 NS ns-923.awsdns-51.net.
active-w.net. 5 NS ns-1391.awsdns-45.org.
active-w.net. 5 NS ns-1604.awsdns-08.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0