Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig kccoyote.com. NS
Answer
kccoyote.com. 4 NS ns3.chi3.etrn.com.
kccoyote.com. 4 NS ns2.chi1.etrn.com.
kccoyote.com. 4 NS ns1.chi3.etrn.com.
kccoyote.com. 4 NS ns1.fmt.etrn.com.
kccoyote.com. 4 NS ns1.chi1.etrn.com.
kccoyote.com. 4 NS ns2.fmt.etrn.com.
kccoyote.com. 4 NS ns2.chi3.etrn.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.fmt.etrn.com. 4 A 178.79.145.131
ns1.chi1.etrn.com. 4 A 204.62.29.253
ns1.chi3.etrn.com. 4 A 204.62.30.253
ns2.fmt.etrn.com. 4 A 204.62.31.253
ns2.chi1.etrn.com. 4 A 45.56.69.153
ns2.chi3.etrn.com. 4 A 204.62.28.253
ns3.chi3.etrn.com. 4 A 174.143.150.29
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0