Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mealeys.com. NS
Answer
mealeys.com. 5 NS ns-563.awsdns-06.net.
mealeys.com. 5 NS ns-1886.awsdns-43.co.uk.
mealeys.com. 5 NS ns-209.awsdns-26.com.
mealeys.com. 5 NS ns-1159.awsdns-16.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0