Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nitestarlifeawareness.com. NS
Answer
nitestarlifeawareness.com. 5 NS ns-929.awsdns-52.net.
nitestarlifeawareness.com. 5 NS ns-1172.awsdns-18.org.
nitestarlifeawareness.com. 5 NS ns-1403.awsdns-47.org.
nitestarlifeawareness.com. 5 NS ns-1501.awsdns-59.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0