Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig gwhc.net. NS
Answer
gwhc.net. 4 NS ns1.gwhc.net.
gwhc.net. 4 NS ns2.gwhc.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.gwhc.net. 4 A 96.53.11.174
ns2.gwhc.net. 4 A 50.17.216.161
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0