Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig visualartconcepts.com. NS
Answer
visualartconcepts.com. 5 NS ns-1314.awsdns-36.org.
visualartconcepts.com. 5 NS ns-908.awsdns-49.net.
visualartconcepts.com. 5 NS ns-155.awsdns-19.com.
visualartconcepts.com. 5 NS ns-1376.awsdns-44.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0