Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cq-icec.org. NS
Answer
cq-icec.org. 5 NS ns-967.awsdns-56.net.
cq-icec.org. 5 NS ns-771.awsdns-32.net.
cq-icec.org. 5 NS ns-2004.awsdns-58.co.uk.
cq-icec.org. 5 NS ns-1741.awsdns-25.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0