Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig chaperthandirt.com. NS
Answer
chaperthandirt.com. 5 NS ns-1559.awsdns-02.co.uk.
chaperthandirt.com. 5 NS ns-308.awsdns-38.com.
chaperthandirt.com. 5 NS ns-772.awsdns-32.net.
chaperthandirt.com. 5 NS ns-1734.awsdns-24.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0