Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig sugartreehill.com. NS
Answer
sugartreehill.com. 5 NS ns1.sugartreehill.com.
sugartreehill.com. 5 NS ns2.sugartreehill.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.sugartreehill.com. 5 A 149.50.96.18
ns2.sugartreehill.com. 5 A 149.50.99.109
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0