Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig sankatmochantemple.org. NS
Answer
sankatmochantemple.org. 5 NS ns-1880.awsdns-43.co.uk.
sankatmochantemple.org. 5 NS ns-1910.awsdns-46.co.uk.
sankatmochantemple.org. 5 NS ns-593.awsdns-10.net.
sankatmochantemple.org. 5 NS ns-1611.awsdns-09.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0