Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cheetahskills.com. NS
Answer
cheetahskills.com. 5 NS ns1.cheetahskills.com.
cheetahskills.com. 5 NS ns2.cheetahskills.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.cheetahskills.com. 5 A 5.45.92.188
ns2.cheetahskills.com. 5 A 51.91.189.63
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0