Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig govdeathrecords.com. NS
Answer
govdeathrecords.com. 5 NS ns-1645.awsdns-13.co.uk.
govdeathrecords.com. 5 NS ns-1686.awsdns-18.co.uk.
govdeathrecords.com. 5 NS ns-257.awsdns-32.com.
govdeathrecords.com. 5 NS ns-1323.awsdns-37.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0