Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig msgdesign1.com. NS
Answer
msgdesign1.com. 5 NS ns-711.awsdns-24.net.
msgdesign1.com. 5 NS ns-459.awsdns-57.com.
msgdesign1.com. 5 NS ns-226.awsdns-28.com.
msgdesign1.com. 5 NS ns-467.awsdns-58.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0