Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig digitalfortshield.com. NS
Answer
digitalfortshield.com. 2 NS carla.ns.cloudflare.com.
digitalfortshield.com. 2 NS damien.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0