Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thedeplatformed.com. NS
Answer
thedeplatformed.com. 1 NS ns-198.awsdns-24.com.
thedeplatformed.com. 1 NS ns-505.awsdns-63.com.
thedeplatformed.com. 1 NS ns-731.awsdns-27.net.
thedeplatformed.com. 1 NS ns-37.awsdns-04.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0