Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig worldgatehotel.com. NS
Answer
worldgatehotel.com. 5 NS ns-1166.awsdns-17.org.
worldgatehotel.com. 5 NS ns-708.awsdns-24.net.
worldgatehotel.com. 5 NS ns-138.awsdns-17.com.
worldgatehotel.com. 5 NS ns-325.awsdns-40.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0