Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig daleide.com. NS
Answer
daleide.com. 5 NS ns-325.awsdns-40.com.
daleide.com. 5 NS ns-922.awsdns-51.net.
daleide.com. 5 NS ns-1149.awsdns-15.org.
daleide.com. 5 NS ns-1479.awsdns-56.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0