Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig reelnewyork.com. NS
Answer
reelnewyork.com. 5 NS ns2.reelnewyork.com.
reelnewyork.com. 5 NS ns1.reelnewyork.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.reelnewyork.com. 5 A 5.61.59.188
ns2.reelnewyork.com. 5 A 5.61.48.221
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0