Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig natures-reflections.net. NS
Answer
natures-reflections.net. 5 NS ns-820.awsdns-38.net.
natures-reflections.net. 5 NS ns-710.awsdns-24.net.
natures-reflections.net. 5 NS ns-200.awsdns-25.com.
natures-reflections.net. 5 NS ns-267.awsdns-33.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0