Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig rhondarochelle.com. NS
Answer
rhondarochelle.com. 5 NS ns-1117.awsdns-11.org.
rhondarochelle.com. 5 NS ns-1088.awsdns-08.org.
rhondarochelle.com. 5 NS ns-274.awsdns-34.com.
rhondarochelle.com. 5 NS ns-309.awsdns-38.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0