Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig bpnicoa.org. NS
Answer
bpnicoa.org. 5 NS ns-1933.awsdns-49.co.uk.
bpnicoa.org. 5 NS ns-1498.awsdns-59.org.
bpnicoa.org. 5 NS ns-248.awsdns-31.com.
bpnicoa.org. 5 NS ns-1212.awsdns-23.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0