Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig longerloving.com. NS
Answer
longerloving.com. 5 NS ns-1122.awsdns-12.org.
longerloving.com. 5 NS ns-772.awsdns-32.net.
longerloving.com. 5 NS ns-42.awsdns-05.com.
longerloving.com. 5 NS ns-614.awsdns-12.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0