Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig interests23.com. NS
Answer
interests23.com. 5 NS ns-1174.awsdns-18.org.
interests23.com. 5 NS ns-649.awsdns-17.net.
interests23.com. 5 NS ns-494.awsdns-61.com.
interests23.com. 5 NS ns-1912.awsdns-47.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0