Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig creekrowpartners.com. NS
Answer
creekrowpartners.com. 5 NS ns1.creekrowpartners.com.
creekrowpartners.com. 5 NS ns2.creekrowpartners.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.creekrowpartners.com. 5 A 185.9.158.35
ns2.creekrowpartners.com. 5 A 198.23.167.18
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0