Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ikandiphotography.com. NS
Answer
ikandiphotography.com. 4 NS ns-284.awsdns-35.com.
ikandiphotography.com. 4 NS ns-1554.awsdns-02.co.uk.
ikandiphotography.com. 4 NS ns-966.awsdns-56.net.
ikandiphotography.com. 4 NS ns-780.awsdns-33.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0