Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig lightweightinspace.com. NS
Answer
lightweightinspace.com. 4 NS ns1.lightweightinspace.com.
lightweightinspace.com. 4 NS ns2.lightweightinspace.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.lightweightinspace.com. 4 A 104.206.1.174
ns2.lightweightinspace.com. 4 A 173.232.67.244
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0