Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig losethewar.org. NS
Answer
losethewar.org. 5 NS ns-1298.awsdns-34.org.
losethewar.org. 5 NS ns-950.awsdns-54.net.
losethewar.org. 5 NS ns-1711.awsdns-21.co.uk.
losethewar.org. 5 NS ns-1646.awsdns-13.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0