Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig buelltheater.com. NS
Answer
buelltheater.com. 5 NS ns-274.awsdns-34.com.
buelltheater.com. 5 NS ns-1444.awsdns-52.org.
buelltheater.com. 5 NS ns-1063.awsdns-04.org.
buelltheater.com. 5 NS ns-624.awsdns-14.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0