Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig homunculusofmung.com. NS
Answer
homunculusofmung.com. 5 NS ns-1042.awsdns-02.org.
homunculusofmung.com. 5 NS ns-1265.awsdns-30.org.
homunculusofmung.com. 5 NS ns-1336.awsdns-39.org.
homunculusofmung.com. 5 NS ns-1517.awsdns-61.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0