Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig stance.com. NS
Answer
stance.com. 5 NS ns-1007.awsdns-61.net.
stance.com. 5 NS ns-1420.awsdns-49.org.
stance.com. 5 NS ns-1889.awsdns-44.co.uk.
stance.com. 5 NS ns-15.awsdns-01.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0