Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig bellanicolebells.com. NS
Answer
bellanicolebells.com. 2 NS ns-174.awsdns-21.com.
bellanicolebells.com. 2 NS ns-1483.awsdns-57.org.
bellanicolebells.com. 2 NS ns-1123.awsdns-12.org.
bellanicolebells.com. 2 NS ns-1020.awsdns-63.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns-1123.awsdns-12.org. 3 A 205.251.196.99
ns-1123.awsdns-12.org. 3 AAAA 2600:9000:5304:6300:0:0:0:1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0