Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thenewnewworld.com. NS
Answer
thenewnewworld.com. 5 NS ns-485.awsdns-60.com.
thenewnewworld.com. 5 NS ns-1656.awsdns-15.co.uk.
thenewnewworld.com. 5 NS ns-844.awsdns-41.net.
thenewnewworld.com. 5 NS ns-522.awsdns-01.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0