Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ben100studio.com. NS
Answer
ben100studio.com. 5 NS ns2.ben100studio.com.
ben100studio.com. 5 NS ns1.ben100studio.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.ben100studio.com. 5 A 78.159.124.175
ns2.ben100studio.com. 5 A 173.236.41.166
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0