Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig scottschrank.com. NS
Answer
scottschrank.com. 5 NS ns-115.awsdns-14.com.
scottschrank.com. 5 NS ns-1703.awsdns-20.co.uk.
scottschrank.com. 5 NS ns-1275.awsdns-31.org.
scottschrank.com. 5 NS ns-1095.awsdns-08.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0