Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig movingleadersforward.org. NS
Answer
movingleadersforward.org. 5 NS ns-1309.awsdns-35.org.
movingleadersforward.org. 5 NS ns-1590.awsdns-06.co.uk.
movingleadersforward.org. 5 NS ns-412.awsdns-51.com.
movingleadersforward.org. 5 NS ns-915.awsdns-50.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0