Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig gocloudeasy.com. NS
Answer
gocloudeasy.com. 5 NS nena.ns.cloudflare.com.
gocloudeasy.com. 5 NS carter.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0