Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig elation.biz. NS
Answer
elation.biz. 5 NS ns3-37.azure-dns.org.
elation.biz. 5 NS ns2-37.azure-dns.net.
elation.biz. 5 NS ns1-37.azure-dns.com.
elation.biz. 5 NS ns4-37.azure-dns.info.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0