Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig draketheis.com. NS
Answer
draketheis.com. 4 NS ns-777.awsdns-33.net.
draketheis.com. 4 NS ns-369.awsdns-46.com.
draketheis.com. 4 NS ns-186.awsdns-23.com.
draketheis.com. 4 NS ns-1408.awsdns-48.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0