Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig looseleaflaw.com. NS
Answer
looseleaflaw.com. 5 NS dns106.register.com.
looseleaflaw.com. 5 NS dns105.register.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0