Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig altnmiapress.net. NS
Answer
altnmiapress.net. 5 NS ns-1200.awsdns-22.org.
altnmiapress.net. 5 NS ns-1245.awsdns-27.org.
altnmiapress.net. 5 NS ns-1248.awsdns-28.org.
altnmiapress.net. 5 NS ns-1590.awsdns-06.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0