Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig iu17.org. NS
Answer
iu17.org. 5 NS cruz.ns.cloudflare.com.
iu17.org. 5 NS coen.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0