Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig kcpoa.org. NS
Answer
kcpoa.org. 5 NS ns-1079.awsdns-06.org.
kcpoa.org. 5 NS ns-317.awsdns-39.com.
kcpoa.org. 5 NS ns-735.awsdns-27.net.
kcpoa.org. 5 NS ns-1579.awsdns-05.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0