Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig aquillontocarian.com. NS
Answer
aquillontocarian.com. 4 NS ns1.aquillontocarian.com.
aquillontocarian.com. 4 NS ns2.aquillontocarian.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.aquillontocarian.com. 4 A 199.188.236.245
ns2.aquillontocarian.com. 4 A 50.2.99.91
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0