Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mmtimenews.com. NS
Answer
mmtimenews.com. 5 NS ns-2027.awsdns-61.co.uk.
mmtimenews.com. 5 NS ns-409.awsdns-51.com.
mmtimenews.com. 5 NS ns-594.awsdns-10.net.
mmtimenews.com. 5 NS ns-842.awsdns-41.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0