Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig babelway.net. NS
Answer
babelway.net. 5 NS ns-222.awsdns-27.com.
babelway.net. 5 NS ns-999.awsdns-60.net.
babelway.net. 5 NS ns-1405.awsdns-47.org.
babelway.net. 5 NS ns-1551.awsdns-01.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0