Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig verbatim-images.com. NS
Answer
verbatim-images.com. 4 NS ns2.verbatim-images.com.
verbatim-images.com. 4 NS ns1.verbatim-images.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.verbatim-images.com. 4 A 162.251.123.136
ns2.verbatim-images.com. 4 A 162.251.123.140
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0