Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig pineterrace.org. NS
Answer
pineterrace.org. 5 NS ns-271.awsdns-33.com.
pineterrace.org. 5 NS ns-734.awsdns-27.net.
pineterrace.org. 5 NS ns-298.awsdns-37.com.
pineterrace.org. 5 NS ns-1537.awsdns-00.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0