Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig reddingstemcell.com. NS
Answer
reddingstemcell.com. 1 NS ns2.reddingstemcell.com.
reddingstemcell.com. 1 NS ns1.reddingstemcell.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.reddingstemcell.com. 1 A 96.47.162.162
ns2.reddingstemcell.com. 1 A 96.47.162.169
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0