Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig gandhianpeace.com. NS
Answer
gandhianpeace.com. 5 NS ns-1438.awsdns-51.org.
gandhianpeace.com. 5 NS ns-690.awsdns-22.net.
gandhianpeace.com. 5 NS ns-449.awsdns-56.com.
gandhianpeace.com. 5 NS ns-1703.awsdns-20.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0