Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig crittercreationtaxidermy.com. NS
Answer
crittercreationtaxidermy.com. 5 NS ns-226.awsdns-28.com.
crittercreationtaxidermy.com. 5 NS ns-18.awsdns-02.com.
crittercreationtaxidermy.com. 5 NS ns-1595.awsdns-07.co.uk.
crittercreationtaxidermy.com. 5 NS ns-1165.awsdns-17.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0