Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig alphacommnj.com. NS
Answer
alphacommnj.com. 5 NS ns-1023.awsdns-63.net.
alphacommnj.com. 5 NS ns-1254.awsdns-28.org.
alphacommnj.com. 5 NS ns-2038.awsdns-62.co.uk.
alphacommnj.com. 5 NS ns-993.awsdns-60.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0