Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig theembassador.com. NS
Answer
theembassador.com. 4 NS ns-175.awsdns-21.com.
theembassador.com. 4 NS ns-711.awsdns-24.net.
theembassador.com. 4 NS ns-406.awsdns-50.com.
theembassador.com. 4 NS ns-1152.awsdns-16.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0