Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig csare.org. NS
Answer
csare.org. 5 NS ns-29.awsdns-03.com.
csare.org. 5 NS ns-1277.awsdns-31.org.
csare.org. 5 NS ns-1093.awsdns-08.org.
csare.org. 5 NS ns-407.awsdns-50.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0