Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig audibly-repose.pressspark.com. NS
Answer
audibly-repose.pressspark.com. 3 NS ns2.afternic.com.
audibly-repose.pressspark.com. 3 NS ns1.afternic.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0