Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hellerlegaldefensefund.com. NS
Answer
hellerlegaldefensefund.com. 1 NS ns-744.awsdns-29.net.
hellerlegaldefensefund.com. 1 NS ns-1268.awsdns-30.org.
hellerlegaldefensefund.com. 1 NS ns-865.awsdns-44.net.
hellerlegaldefensefund.com. 1 NS ns-1578.awsdns-05.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0