Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig recruitingbypaycor.com. NS
Answer
recruitingbypaycor.com. 5 NS ns-1178.awsdns-19.org.
recruitingbypaycor.com. 5 NS ns-461.awsdns-57.com.
recruitingbypaycor.com. 5 NS ns-526.awsdns-01.net.
recruitingbypaycor.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