Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig halara.com. NS
Answer
halara.com. 5 NS ns-56.awsdns-07.com.
halara.com. 5 NS ns-1061.awsdns-04.org.
halara.com. 5 NS ns-707.awsdns-24.net.
halara.com. 5 NS ns-1777.awsdns-30.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0