Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig house-of-trae.com. NS
Answer
house-of-trae.com. 5 NS ns1.house-of-trae.com.
house-of-trae.com. 5 NS ns2.house-of-trae.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.house-of-trae.com. 5 A 151.241.217.91
ns2.house-of-trae.com. 5 A 151.241.217.91
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0