Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig faqtory.nl. NS
Answer
faqtory.nl. 5 NS ns-1997.awsdns-57.co.uk.
faqtory.nl. 5 NS ns-325.awsdns-40.com.
faqtory.nl. 5 NS ns-557.awsdns-05.net.
faqtory.nl. 5 NS ns-1249.awsdns-28.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0