Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig i95.net. NS
Answer
i95.net. 3 NS ns-1330.awsdns-38.org.
i95.net. 3 NS ns-672.awsdns-20.net.
i95.net. 3 NS ns-44.awsdns-05.com.
i95.net. 3 NS ns-2001.awsdns-58.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0