Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hostlove.net. NS
Answer
hostlove.net. 5 NS ns-499.awsdns-62.com.
hostlove.net. 5 NS ns-1038.awsdns-01.org.
hostlove.net. 5 NS ns-1447.awsdns-52.org.
hostlove.net. 5 NS ns-2026.awsdns-61.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0