Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig patchman.co. NS
Answer
patchman.co. 5 NS emma.ns.cloudflare.com.
patchman.co. 5 NS ray.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0