Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mtoliverectortown.org. NS
Answer
mtoliverectortown.org. 5 NS ns-1151.awsdns-15.org.
mtoliverectortown.org. 5 NS ns-203.awsdns-25.com.
mtoliverectortown.org. 5 NS ns-1669.awsdns-16.co.uk.
mtoliverectortown.org. 5 NS ns-1543.awsdns-00.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0