Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig princeofgoth.com. NS
Answer
princeofgoth.com. 5 NS ns-344.awsdns-43.com.
princeofgoth.com. 5 NS ns-993.awsdns-60.net.
princeofgoth.com. 5 NS ns-1522.awsdns-62.org.
princeofgoth.com. 5 NS ns-1789.awsdns-31.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0