Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig petersonshunting.com. NS
Answer
petersonshunting.com. 5 NS ns-502.awsdns-62.com.
petersonshunting.com. 5 NS ns-1244.awsdns-27.org.
petersonshunting.com. 5 NS ns-1795.awsdns-32.co.uk.
petersonshunting.com. 5 NS ns-296.awsdns-37.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0