Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig artholioussh.com. NS
Answer
artholioussh.com. 5 NS ns-1287.awsdns-32.org.
artholioussh.com. 5 NS ns-1482.awsdns-57.org.
artholioussh.com. 5 NS ns-279.awsdns-34.com.
artholioussh.com. 5 NS ns-854.awsdns-42.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0