Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hardysfriends.com. NS
Answer
hardysfriends.com. 5 NS ns-1320.awsdns-37.org.
hardysfriends.com. 5 NS ns-1701.awsdns-20.co.uk.
hardysfriends.com. 5 NS ns-654.awsdns-17.net.
hardysfriends.com. 5 NS ns-736.awsdns-28.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0