Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig intensefriction.com. NS
Answer
intensefriction.com. 5 NS ns-811.awsdns-37.net.
intensefriction.com. 5 NS ns-477.awsdns-59.com.
intensefriction.com. 5 NS ns-64.awsdns-08.com.
intensefriction.com. 5 NS ns-1269.awsdns-30.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0