Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig projectabcla.org. NS
Answer
projectabcla.org. 5 NS ns-368.awsdns-46.com.
projectabcla.org. 5 NS ns-1430.awsdns-50.org.
projectabcla.org. 5 NS ns-1255.awsdns-28.org.
projectabcla.org. 5 NS ns-748.awsdns-29.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0