Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig metalclarinets.com. NS
Answer
metalclarinets.com. 5 NS ns2.metalclarinets.com.
metalclarinets.com. 5 NS ns1.metalclarinets.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.metalclarinets.com. 5 A 104.140.23.194
ns2.metalclarinets.com. 5 A 104.206.30.87
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0