Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig eyeofthepacific.org. NS
Answer
eyeofthepacific.org. 5 NS ns-1777.awsdns-30.co.uk.
eyeofthepacific.org. 5 NS ns-156.awsdns-19.com.
eyeofthepacific.org. 5 NS ns-1335.awsdns-38.org.
eyeofthepacific.org. 5 NS ns-1369.awsdns-43.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0