Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig digitrips.net. NS
Answer
digitrips.net. 5 NS dom.ns.cloudflare.com.
digitrips.net. 5 NS aron.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0