Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig m247.global. NS
Answer
m247.global. 5 NS vick.ns.cloudflare.com.
m247.global. 5 NS cheryl.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0