Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig fredrickboling.com. NS
Answer
fredrickboling.com. 5 NS ns-1303.awsdns-34.org.
fredrickboling.com. 5 NS ns-1411.awsdns-48.org.
fredrickboling.com. 5 NS ns-1552.awsdns-02.co.uk.
fredrickboling.com. 5 NS ns-1225.awsdns-25.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0