Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thesurrealnews.com. NS
Answer
thesurrealnews.com. 4 NS ns-1073.awsdns-06.org.
thesurrealnews.com. 4 NS ns-1412.awsdns-48.org.
thesurrealnews.com. 4 NS ns-387.awsdns-48.com.
thesurrealnews.com. 4 NS ns-697.awsdns-23.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0