Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig lannycarver.com. NS
Answer
lannycarver.com. 5 NS ns-593.awsdns-10.net.
lannycarver.com. 5 NS ns-235.awsdns-29.com.
lannycarver.com. 5 NS ns-576.awsdns-08.net.
lannycarver.com. 5 NS ns-1220.awsdns-24.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0