Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig bethanyquilt.com. NS
Answer
bethanyquilt.com. 5 NS ns2.bethanyquilt.com.
bethanyquilt.com. 5 NS ns1.bethanyquilt.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.bethanyquilt.com. 5 A 198.46.213.146
ns2.bethanyquilt.com. 5 A 172.245.129.178
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0