Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig kathysuephotos.com. NS
Answer
kathysuephotos.com. 5 NS ns-299.awsdns-37.com.
kathysuephotos.com. 5 NS ns-917.awsdns-50.net.
kathysuephotos.com. 5 NS ns-728.awsdns-27.net.
kathysuephotos.com. 5 NS ns-1986.awsdns-56.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0