Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig forestracks.net. NS
Answer
forestracks.net. 4 NS princess.ns.cloudflare.com.
forestracks.net. 4 NS evan.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0