Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cheatecodes.com. NS
Answer
cheatecodes.com. 5 NS ns-129.awsdns-16.com.
cheatecodes.com. 5 NS ns-1721.awsdns-23.co.uk.
cheatecodes.com. 5 NS ns-1038.awsdns-01.org.
cheatecodes.com. 5 NS ns-390.awsdns-48.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0