Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig shininglightconcept.com. NS
Answer
shininglightconcept.com. 5 NS ns1.shininglightconcept.com.
shininglightconcept.com. 5 NS ns2.shininglightconcept.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.shininglightconcept.com. 5 A 51.161.68.193
ns2.shininglightconcept.com. 5 A 173.236.41.165
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0