Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig donateacomputer.org. NS
Answer
donateacomputer.org. 4 NS ns-924.awsdns-51.net.
donateacomputer.org. 4 NS ns-1228.awsdns-25.org.
donateacomputer.org. 4 NS ns-1782.awsdns-30.co.uk.
donateacomputer.org. 4 NS ns-1870.awsdns-41.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0