Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig crystalcoding.org. NS
Answer
crystalcoding.org. 5 NS arturo.ns.cloudflare.com.
crystalcoding.org. 5 NS dina.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0