Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig jamesgangnc.com. NS
Answer
jamesgangnc.com. 5 NS ns2.jamesgangnc.com.
jamesgangnc.com. 5 NS ns1.jamesgangnc.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.jamesgangnc.com. 5 A 199.188.236.145
ns2.jamesgangnc.com. 5 A 51.222.0.2
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0