Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig dataquestnow.com. NS
Answer
dataquestnow.com. 5 NS ns-525.awsdns-01.net.
dataquestnow.com. 5 NS ns-879.awsdns-45.net.
dataquestnow.com. 5 NS ns-855.awsdns-42.net.
dataquestnow.com. 5 NS ns-623.awsdns-13.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0