Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig murdergoessouth.com. NS
Answer
murdergoessouth.com. 1 NS ns2.murdergoessouth.com.
murdergoessouth.com. 1 NS ns1.murdergoessouth.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.murdergoessouth.com. 1 A 199.188.236.147
ns2.murdergoessouth.com. 1 A 43.255.240.27
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0