Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig emercointalk.org. NS
Answer
emercointalk.org. 4 NS ns-1042.awsdns-02.org.
emercointalk.org. 4 NS ns-731.awsdns-27.net.
emercointalk.org. 4 NS ns-1767.awsdns-28.co.uk.
emercointalk.org. 4 NS ns-1291.awsdns-33.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0