Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig vfwauxiliary2872.org. NS
Answer
vfwauxiliary2872.org. 5 NS ns-73.awsdns-09.com.
vfwauxiliary2872.org. 5 NS ns-1697.awsdns-20.co.uk.
vfwauxiliary2872.org. 5 NS ns-1190.awsdns-20.org.
vfwauxiliary2872.org. 5 NS ns-1154.awsdns-16.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0