Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig kathleensnydermft.com. NS
Answer
kathleensnydermft.com. 5 NS ns-421.awsdns-52.com.
kathleensnydermft.com. 5 NS ns-505.awsdns-63.com.
kathleensnydermft.com. 5 NS ns-737.awsdns-28.net.
kathleensnydermft.com. 5 NS ns-1408.awsdns-48.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0