Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig quatrixen.com. NS
Answer
quatrixen.com. 4 NS ns-119.awsdns-14.com.
quatrixen.com. 4 NS ns-519.awsdns-00.net.
quatrixen.com. 4 NS ns-1079.awsdns-06.org.
quatrixen.com. 4 NS ns-1519.awsdns-61.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0