Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig vexedapesclub.com. NS
Answer
vexedapesclub.com. 5 NS ns-290.awsdns-36.com.
vexedapesclub.com. 5 NS ns-923.awsdns-51.net.
vexedapesclub.com. 5 NS ns-1262.awsdns-29.org.
vexedapesclub.com. 5 NS ns-1922.awsdns-48.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0