Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig novatimeanywhere.com. NS
Answer
novatimeanywhere.com. 5 NS ns-691.awsdns-22.net.
novatimeanywhere.com. 5 NS ns-1925.awsdns-48.co.uk.
novatimeanywhere.com. 5 NS ns-207.awsdns-25.com.
novatimeanywhere.com. 5 NS ns-1072.awsdns-06.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0