Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ncfjwest.org. NS
Answer
ncfjwest.org. 5 NS ns-1133.awsdns-13.org.
ncfjwest.org. 5 NS ns-1560.awsdns-03.co.uk.
ncfjwest.org. 5 NS ns-655.awsdns-17.net.
ncfjwest.org. 5 NS ns-1381.awsdns-44.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0