Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig kneetoeproductions.com. NS
Answer
kneetoeproductions.com. 5 NS ns-470.awsdns-58.com.
kneetoeproductions.com. 5 NS ns-639.awsdns-15.net.
kneetoeproductions.com. 5 NS ns-210.awsdns-26.com.
kneetoeproductions.com. 5 NS ns-454.awsdns-56.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0