Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig calpolyaias.org. NS
Answer
calpolyaias.org. 5 NS ns1.calpolyaias.org.
calpolyaias.org. 5 NS ns2.calpolyaias.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.calpolyaias.org. 5 A 104.140.148.146
ns2.calpolyaias.org. 5 A 50.2.234.235
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0