Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig atomiclayer.com. NS
Answer
atomiclayer.com. 1 NS dns2.atomiclayer.com.
atomiclayer.com. 1 NS dns1.atomiclayer.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
dns1.atomiclayer.com. 1 A 96.125.179.113
dns2.atomiclayer.com. 1 A 108.170.61.98
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0