Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig velmorquix.com. NS
Answer
velmorquix.com. 3 NS ns-1183.awsdns-19.org.
velmorquix.com. 3 NS ns-708.awsdns-24.net.
velmorquix.com. 3 NS ns-454.awsdns-56.com.
velmorquix.com. 3 NS ns-1241.awsdns-27.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0