Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig qikrux.com. NS
Answer
qikrux.com. 5 NS ns-399.awsdns-49.com.
qikrux.com. 5 NS ns-1437.awsdns-51.org.
qikrux.com. 5 NS ns-1479.awsdns-56.org.
qikrux.com. 5 NS ns-367.awsdns-45.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0