Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig scrolloftheday.com. NS
Answer
scrolloftheday.com. 2 NS ns-1389.awsdns-45.org.
scrolloftheday.com. 2 NS ns-270.awsdns-33.com.
scrolloftheday.com. 2 NS ns-233.awsdns-29.com.
scrolloftheday.com. 2 NS ns-1756.awsdns-27.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0