Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig kinstuff.com. NS
Answer
kinstuff.com. 2 NS ns-1260.awsdns-29.org.
kinstuff.com. 2 NS ns-1662.awsdns-15.co.uk.
kinstuff.com. 2 NS ns-2046.awsdns-63.co.uk.
kinstuff.com. 2 NS ns-804.awsdns-36.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0