Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig researchidaho.com. NS
Answer
researchidaho.com. 1 NS ns-1092.awsdns-08.org.
researchidaho.com. 1 NS ns-243.awsdns-30.com.
researchidaho.com. 1 NS ns-1685.awsdns-18.co.uk.
researchidaho.com. 1 NS ns-1370.awsdns-43.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0