Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig elifbyte.com. NS
Answer
elifbyte.com. 5 NS ns-1041.awsdns-02.org.
elifbyte.com. 5 NS ns-816.awsdns-38.net.
elifbyte.com. 5 NS ns-148.awsdns-18.com.
elifbyte.com. 5 NS ns-1732.awsdns-24.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0