Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig adesignchronicle.com. NS
Answer
adesignchronicle.com. 5 NS ns-1718.awsdns-22.co.uk.
adesignchronicle.com. 5 NS ns-1907.awsdns-46.co.uk.
adesignchronicle.com. 5 NS ns-202.awsdns-25.com.
adesignchronicle.com. 5 NS ns-1223.awsdns-24.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0