Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig earnedfence.com. NS
Answer
earnedfence.com. 5 NS ns2.earnedfence.com.
earnedfence.com. 5 NS ns1.earnedfence.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.earnedfence.com. 5 A 86.111.189.219
ns2.earnedfence.com. 5 A 15.235.133.244
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0