Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig palpatations.com. NS
Answer
palpatations.com. 5 NS ns-202.awsdns-25.com.
palpatations.com. 5 NS ns-213.awsdns-26.com.
palpatations.com. 5 NS ns-1124.awsdns-12.org.
palpatations.com. 5 NS ns-1926.awsdns-48.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0