Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hillryder.com. NS
Answer
hillryder.com. 4 NS ns-225.awsdns-28.com.
hillryder.com. 4 NS ns-881.awsdns-46.net.
hillryder.com. 4 NS ns-114.awsdns-14.com.
hillryder.com. 4 NS ns-574.awsdns-07.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0