Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig badassops.com. NS
Answer
badassops.com. 3 NS lilo.dns.badassops.com.
badassops.com. 3 NS dns.elm.net.
badassops.com. 3 NS stitch.dns.badassops.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
lilo.dns.badassops.com. 3 A 43.245.49.249
stitch.dns.badassops.com. 3 A 208.111.35.197
lilo.dns.badassops.com. 3 AAAA 2403:2500:300:0:0:0:0:1a7
stitch.dns.badassops.com. 3 AAAA 2607:f740:0:3f:0:0:0:e49
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0