Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig homeissantacruz.com. NS
Answer
homeissantacruz.com. 5 NS ns2.homeissantacruz.com.
homeissantacruz.com. 5 NS ns1.homeissantacruz.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.homeissantacruz.com. 5 A 163.5.51.126
ns2.homeissantacruz.com. 5 A 184.171.240.100
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0