Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig scopsi.org. NS
Answer
scopsi.org. 2 NS ns-1278.awsdns-31.org.
scopsi.org. 2 NS ns-1106.awsdns-10.org.
scopsi.org. 2 NS ns-21.awsdns-02.com.
scopsi.org. 2 NS ns-673.awsdns-20.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0