Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hardflics.com. NS
Answer
hardflics.com. 1 NS ns2.hardflics.com.
hardflics.com. 1 NS ns1.hardflics.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.hardflics.com. 1 A 51.161.13.213
ns2.hardflics.com. 1 A 51.79.11.245
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0