Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig crowncloud.net. NS
Answer
crowncloud.net. 3 NS elsa.ns.cloudflare.com.
crowncloud.net. 3 NS mark.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0