Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig loansifter.com. NS
Answer
loansifter.com. 5 NS ns-866.awsdns-44.net.
loansifter.com. 5 NS ns-1381.awsdns-44.org.
loansifter.com. 5 NS ns-1982.awsdns-55.co.uk.
loansifter.com. 5 NS ns-288.awsdns-36.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0