Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig joneslady.store. NS
Answer
joneslady.store. 5 NS ns1.joneslady.store.
joneslady.store. 5 NS ns2.joneslady.store.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.joneslady.store. 5 A 23.254.209.75
ns2.joneslady.store. 5 A 23.254.215.95
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0