Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig barkeaterstudios.org. NS
Answer
barkeaterstudios.org. 5 NS ns-104.awsdns-13.com.
barkeaterstudios.org. 5 NS ns-987.awsdns-59.net.
barkeaterstudios.org. 5 NS ns-890.awsdns-47.net.
barkeaterstudios.org. 5 NS ns-246.awsdns-30.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0