Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig connectionoutreach.org. NS
Answer
connectionoutreach.org. 5 NS ns-1213.awsdns-23.org.
connectionoutreach.org. 5 NS ns-1712.awsdns-22.co.uk.
connectionoutreach.org. 5 NS ns-13.awsdns-01.com.
connectionoutreach.org. 5 NS ns-882.awsdns-46.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0