Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig phreeviews.com. NS
Answer
phreeviews.com. 5 NS ns2.phreeviews.com.
phreeviews.com. 5 NS ns1.phreeviews.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.phreeviews.com. 5 A 51.77.53.46
ns2.phreeviews.com. 5 A 51.68.148.25
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0