Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig heywiredceus.com. NS
Answer
heywiredceus.com. 4 NS ns-629.awsdns-14.net.
heywiredceus.com. 4 NS ns-1927.awsdns-48.co.uk.
heywiredceus.com. 4 NS ns-1348.awsdns-40.org.
heywiredceus.com. 4 NS ns-800.awsdns-36.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0