Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hotsycencal.com. NS
Answer
hotsycencal.com. 5 NS ns-870.awsdns-44.net.
hotsycencal.com. 5 NS ns-1138.awsdns-14.org.
hotsycencal.com. 5 NS ns-1907.awsdns-46.co.uk.
hotsycencal.com. 5 NS ns-774.awsdns-32.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0