Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thelandfill.org. NS
Answer
thelandfill.org. 5 NS ns-487.awsdns-60.com.
thelandfill.org. 5 NS ns-1118.awsdns-11.org.
thelandfill.org. 5 NS ns-372.awsdns-46.com.
thelandfill.org. 5 NS ns-795.awsdns-35.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0