Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig timeforaquickone.com. NS
Answer
timeforaquickone.com. 5 NS ns-502.awsdns-62.com.
timeforaquickone.com. 5 NS ns-129.awsdns-16.com.
timeforaquickone.com. 5 NS ns-1294.awsdns-33.org.
timeforaquickone.com. 5 NS ns-1155.awsdns-16.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0