Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig colormeamerican.com. NS
Answer
colormeamerican.com. 5 NS ns-892.awsdns-47.net.
colormeamerican.com. 5 NS ns-1946.awsdns-51.co.uk.
colormeamerican.com. 5 NS ns-335.awsdns-41.com.
colormeamerican.com. 5 NS ns-938.awsdns-53.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0