Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig firesidekc.com. NS
Answer
firesidekc.com. 5 NS ns2.firesidekc.com.
firesidekc.com. 5 NS ns1.firesidekc.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.firesidekc.com. 5 A 167.148.173.46
ns2.firesidekc.com. 5 A 162.244.82.13
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0