Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig theparanormaldetectives.com. NS
Answer
theparanormaldetectives.com. 5 NS ns-212.awsdns-26.com.
theparanormaldetectives.com. 5 NS ns-1040.awsdns-02.org.
theparanormaldetectives.com. 5 NS ns-97.awsdns-12.com.
theparanormaldetectives.com. 5 NS ns-182.awsdns-22.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0