Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig jerrymercer.com. NS
Answer
jerrymercer.com. 5 NS ns2.jerrymercer.com.
jerrymercer.com. 5 NS ns1.jerrymercer.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.jerrymercer.com. 5 A 66.11.120.156
ns2.jerrymercer.com. 5 A 23.231.64.58
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0