Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig pennsylvania-criminal-defense.com. NS
Answer
pennsylvania-criminal-defense.com. 5 NS ns-1896.awsdns-45.co.uk.
pennsylvania-criminal-defense.com. 5 NS ns-908.awsdns-49.net.
pennsylvania-criminal-defense.com. 5 NS ns-684.awsdns-21.net.
pennsylvania-criminal-defense.com. 5 NS ns-1100.awsdns-09.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0