Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig festiveink.com. NS
Answer
festiveink.com. 5 NS ns2.festiveink.com.
festiveink.com. 5 NS ns1.festiveink.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.festiveink.com. 5 A 107.6.155.85
ns2.festiveink.com. 5 A 51.79.234.126
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0