Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig e-activist.com. NS
Answer
e-activist.com. 5 NS walt.ns.cloudflare.com.
e-activist.com. 5 NS lila.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0