Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig michaeldecker.org. NS
Answer
michaeldecker.org. 5 NS ns-674.awsdns-20.net.
michaeldecker.org. 5 NS ns-178.awsdns-22.com.
michaeldecker.org. 5 NS ns-617.awsdns-13.net.
michaeldecker.org. 5 NS ns-1012.awsdns-62.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0