Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thearchivescorp.com. NS
Answer
thearchivescorp.com. 5 NS ns1.thearchivescorp.com.
thearchivescorp.com. 5 NS ns2.thearchivescorp.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.thearchivescorp.com. 5 A 192.96.204.143
ns2.thearchivescorp.com. 5 A 192.96.204.147
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0