Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig dangerouscroquet.org. NS
Answer
dangerouscroquet.org. 4 NS ns1.dangerouscroquet.org.
dangerouscroquet.org. 4 NS ns2.dangerouscroquet.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.dangerouscroquet.org. 4 A 198.23.167.18
ns2.dangerouscroquet.org. 4 A 198.23.167.21
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0