Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig conniesview.com. NS
Answer
conniesview.com. 5 NS ns-703.awsdns-23.net.
conniesview.com. 5 NS ns-1990.awsdns-56.co.uk.
conniesview.com. 5 NS ns-225.awsdns-28.com.
conniesview.com. 5 NS ns-1243.awsdns-27.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0