Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig compass-architects.com. NS
Answer
compass-architects.com. 2 NS ns-1677.awsdns-17.co.uk.
compass-architects.com. 2 NS ns-1263.awsdns-29.org.
compass-architects.com. 2 NS ns-455.awsdns-56.com.
compass-architects.com. 2 NS ns-1065.awsdns-05.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0