Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig stereophotography.net. NS
Answer
stereophotography.net. 5 NS dns1.registrar-servers.com.
stereophotography.net. 5 NS dns2.registrar-servers.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
dns2.registrar-servers.com. 5 A 156.154.133.200
dns2.registrar-servers.com. 5 AAAA 2610:a1:1025:0:0:0:0:200
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0