Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig stopstansteadexpansion.com. NS
Answer
stopstansteadexpansion.com. 3 NS ns1.stopstansteadexpansion.com.
stopstansteadexpansion.com. 3 NS ns2.stopstansteadexpansion.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.stopstansteadexpansion.com. 3 A 51.222.131.32
ns2.stopstansteadexpansion.com. 3 A 51.222.131.34
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0