Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hostilecycle.com. NS
Answer
hostilecycle.com. 4 NS ns-1568.awsdns-04.co.uk.
hostilecycle.com. 4 NS ns-1406.awsdns-47.org.
hostilecycle.com. 4 NS ns-63.awsdns-07.com.
hostilecycle.com. 4 NS ns-1575.awsdns-04.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0