Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig iafflocalf292.org. NS
Answer
iafflocalf292.org. 5 NS ns-1090.awsdns-08.org.
iafflocalf292.org. 5 NS ns-1583.awsdns-05.co.uk.
iafflocalf292.org. 5 NS ns-1066.awsdns-05.org.
iafflocalf292.org. 5 NS ns-1461.awsdns-54.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0