Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig scathecentral.com. NS
Answer
scathecentral.com. 5 NS ns-945.awsdns-54.net.
scathecentral.com. 5 NS ns-10.awsdns-01.com.
scathecentral.com. 5 NS ns-664.awsdns-19.net.
scathecentral.com. 5 NS ns-1368.awsdns-43.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0