Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig q4websystems.com. NS
Answer
q4websystems.com. 5 NS ns-1315.awsdns-36.org.
q4websystems.com. 5 NS ns-452.awsdns-56.com.
q4websystems.com. 5 NS ns-753.awsdns-30.net.
q4websystems.com. 5 NS ns-1610.awsdns-09.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0