Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hilltribehouse.com. NS
Answer
hilltribehouse.com. 5 NS ns-1417.awsdns-49.org.
hilltribehouse.com. 5 NS ns-1484.awsdns-57.org.
hilltribehouse.com. 5 NS ns-1643.awsdns-13.co.uk.
hilltribehouse.com. 5 NS ns-1952.awsdns-52.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0