Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig myadaptive.org. NS
Answer
myadaptive.org. 5 NS ns-1116.awsdns-11.org.
myadaptive.org. 5 NS ns-1139.awsdns-14.org.
myadaptive.org. 5 NS ns-477.awsdns-59.com.
myadaptive.org. 5 NS ns-955.awsdns-55.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0