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