Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig goldengobelin.com. NS
Answer
goldengobelin.com. 5 NS ns-904.awsdns-49.net.
goldengobelin.com. 5 NS ns-1266.awsdns-30.org.
goldengobelin.com. 5 NS ns-1419.awsdns-49.org.
goldengobelin.com. 5 NS ns-1700.awsdns-20.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0