Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig akixi.com. NS
Answer
akixi.com. 2 NS ns-142.awsdns-17.com.
akixi.com. 2 NS ns-1262.awsdns-29.org.
akixi.com. 2 NS ns-652.awsdns-17.net.
akixi.com. 2 NS ns-2011.awsdns-59.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0