Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig meggren.net. NS
Answer
meggren.net. 5 NS ns-522.awsdns-01.net.
meggren.net. 5 NS ns-944.awsdns-54.net.
meggren.net. 5 NS ns-1512.awsdns-61.org.
meggren.net. 5 NS ns-1564.awsdns-03.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0