Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig piercedslut.com. NS
Answer
piercedslut.com. 5 NS ns1.piercedslut.com.
piercedslut.com. 5 NS ns2.piercedslut.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.piercedslut.com. 5 A 149.56.130.74
ns2.piercedslut.com. 5 A 15.235.97.235
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0