Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig vermontphotospace.com. NS
Answer
vermontphotospace.com. 5 NS ns-2003.awsdns-58.co.uk.
vermontphotospace.com. 5 NS ns-951.awsdns-54.net.
vermontphotospace.com. 5 NS ns-83.awsdns-10.com.
vermontphotospace.com. 5 NS ns-1204.awsdns-22.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0