Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig themillennialeffect.com. NS
Answer
themillennialeffect.com. 5 NS ns-1063.awsdns-04.org.
themillennialeffect.com. 5 NS ns-526.awsdns-01.net.
themillennialeffect.com. 5 NS ns-110.awsdns-13.com.
themillennialeffect.com. 5 NS ns-1257.awsdns-29.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0