Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig usrecliners.net. NS
Answer
usrecliners.net. 5 NS ns2.usrecliners.net.
usrecliners.net. 5 NS ns1.usrecliners.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.usrecliners.net. 5 A 170.130.204.210
ns2.usrecliners.net. 5 A 50.3.109.110
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0