Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig meatspeen.com. NS
Answer
meatspeen.com. 5 NS ns-419.awsdns-52.com.
meatspeen.com. 5 NS ns-1841.awsdns-38.co.uk.
meatspeen.com. 5 NS ns-1131.awsdns-13.org.
meatspeen.com. 5 NS ns-684.awsdns-21.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0