Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig memberlodge.org. NS
Answer
memberlodge.org. 4 NS ns-1489.awsdns-58.org.
memberlodge.org. 4 NS ns-760.awsdns-31.net.
memberlodge.org. 4 NS ns-431.awsdns-53.com.
memberlodge.org. 4 NS ns-1585.awsdns-06.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0