Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig trespistones.com. NS
Answer
trespistones.com. 5 NS ns-931.awsdns-52.net.
trespistones.com. 5 NS ns-1454.awsdns-53.org.
trespistones.com. 5 NS ns-1822.awsdns-35.co.uk.
trespistones.com. 5 NS ns-498.awsdns-62.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0