Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig archerirm.us. NS
Answer
archerirm.us. 5 NS ns-1389.awsdns-45.org.
archerirm.us. 5 NS ns-1641.awsdns-13.co.uk.
archerirm.us. 5 NS ns-62.awsdns-07.com.
archerirm.us. 5 NS ns-745.awsdns-29.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0