Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hfxkiwanisregistration.com. NS
Answer
hfxkiwanisregistration.com. 3 NS ns-1215.awsdns-23.org.
hfxkiwanisregistration.com. 3 NS ns-83.awsdns-10.com.
hfxkiwanisregistration.com. 3 NS ns-1022.awsdns-63.net.
hfxkiwanisregistration.com. 3 NS ns-1743.awsdns-25.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0