Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig jweiland.cloud. NS
Answer
jweiland.cloud. 5 NS ns-1597.awsdns-07.co.uk.
jweiland.cloud. 5 NS ns-899.awsdns-48.net.
jweiland.cloud. 5 NS ns-165.awsdns-20.com.
jweiland.cloud. 5 NS ns-1088.awsdns-08.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0