Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig carplev.org. NS
Answer
carplev.org. 5 NS ns1.carplev.org.
carplev.org. 5 NS ns2.carplev.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.carplev.org. 5 A 107.172.27.216
ns2.carplev.org. 5 A 192.210.179.111
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0