Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig caronwaltz.com. NS
Answer
caronwaltz.com. 5 NS ns2.caronwaltz.com.
caronwaltz.com. 5 NS ns1.caronwaltz.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.caronwaltz.com. 5 A 170.130.202.146
ns2.caronwaltz.com. 5 A 23.231.64.60
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0