Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig trudyandes.com. NS
Answer
trudyandes.com. 5 NS ns1.trudyandes.com.
trudyandes.com. 5 NS ns2.trudyandes.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.trudyandes.com. 5 A 51.255.199.213
ns2.trudyandes.com. 5 A 51.68.7.184
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0