Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig theabundantyogi.com. NS
Answer
theabundantyogi.com. 5 NS ns1.theabundantyogi.com.
theabundantyogi.com. 5 NS ns2.theabundantyogi.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.theabundantyogi.com. 5 A 173.252.193.158
ns2.theabundantyogi.com. 5 A 173.252.192.142
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0