Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig spicysims.com. NS
Answer
spicysims.com. 5 NS ns-1186.awsdns-20.org.
spicysims.com. 5 NS ns-231.awsdns-28.com.
spicysims.com. 5 NS ns-11.awsdns-01.com.
spicysims.com. 5 NS ns-1845.awsdns-38.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0