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