Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hope1967.com. NS
Answer
hope1967.com. 5 NS ns-825.awsdns-39.net.
hope1967.com. 5 NS ns-819.awsdns-38.net.
hope1967.com. 5 NS ns-736.awsdns-28.net.
hope1967.com. 5 NS ns-1683.awsdns-18.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0