Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig deronbauman.com. NS
Answer
deronbauman.com. 5 NS ns-2004.awsdns-58.co.uk.
deronbauman.com. 5 NS ns-40.awsdns-05.com.
deronbauman.com. 5 NS ns-696.awsdns-23.net.
deronbauman.com. 5 NS ns-1729.awsdns-24.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0