Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mindcentric.com. NS
Answer
mindcentric.com. 5 NS ns-75.awsdns-09.com.
mindcentric.com. 5 NS ns-790.awsdns-34.net.
mindcentric.com. 5 NS ns-1273.awsdns-31.org.
mindcentric.com. 5 NS ns-1928.awsdns-49.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0