Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig nowpendingmedia.com. NS
Answer
nowpendingmedia.com. 5 NS ns-1858.awsdns-40.co.uk.
nowpendingmedia.com. 5 NS ns-251.awsdns-31.com.
nowpendingmedia.com. 5 NS ns-353.awsdns-44.com.
nowpendingmedia.com. 5 NS ns-444.awsdns-55.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0