Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig scottradec.org. NS
Answer
scottradec.org. 5 NS ns-524.awsdns-01.net.
scottradec.org. 5 NS ns-358.awsdns-44.com.
scottradec.org. 5 NS ns-746.awsdns-29.net.
scottradec.org. 5 NS ns-605.awsdns-11.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0