Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nekritznow.com. NS
Answer
nekritznow.com. 4 NS ns2-17.azure-dns.net.
nekritznow.com. 4 NS ns1-17.azure-dns.com.
nekritznow.com. 4 NS ns4-17.azure-dns.info.
nekritznow.com. 4 NS ns3-17.azure-dns.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0