Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig brakforever.com. NS
Answer
brakforever.com. 2 NS ns2.brakforever.com.
brakforever.com. 2 NS ns1.brakforever.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.brakforever.com. 2 A 144.217.166.41
ns2.brakforever.com. 2 A 51.161.91.55
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0