Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig precious-garden.com. NS
Answer
precious-garden.com. 1 NS ursula.ns.cloudflare.com.
precious-garden.com. 1 NS kellen.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0