Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig gameplaylive.org. NS
Answer
gameplaylive.org. 4 NS ns-19.awsdns-02.com.
gameplaylive.org. 4 NS ns-910.awsdns-49.net.
gameplaylive.org. 4 NS ns-678.awsdns-20.net.
gameplaylive.org. 4 NS ns-1400.awsdns-47.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0