Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig novelexperience.org. NS
Answer
novelexperience.org. 2 NS ns-1529.awsdns-63.org.
novelexperience.org. 2 NS ns-1491.awsdns-58.org.
novelexperience.org. 2 NS ns-594.awsdns-10.net.
novelexperience.org. 2 NS ns-1959.awsdns-52.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0