Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig lobstergarlico.com. NS
Answer
lobstergarlico.com. 5 NS naya.ns.cloudflare.com.
lobstergarlico.com. 5 NS chase.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0