Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig lanyonevents.com. NS
Answer
lanyonevents.com. 5 NS ns-1720.awsdns-23.co.uk.
lanyonevents.com. 5 NS ns-242.awsdns-30.com.
lanyonevents.com. 5 NS ns-813.awsdns-37.net.
lanyonevents.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