Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cmsqd.org. NS
Answer
cmsqd.org. 5 NS ns-1566.awsdns-03.co.uk.
cmsqd.org. 5 NS ns-1605.awsdns-08.co.uk.
cmsqd.org. 5 NS ns-131.awsdns-16.com.
cmsqd.org. 5 NS ns-1487.awsdns-57.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0