Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig jameshardenshoes.org. NS
Answer
jameshardenshoes.org. 5 NS ns-1559.awsdns-02.co.uk.
jameshardenshoes.org. 5 NS ns-419.awsdns-52.com.
jameshardenshoes.org. 5 NS ns-177.awsdns-22.com.
jameshardenshoes.org. 5 NS ns-750.awsdns-29.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0