Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig navypeer.com. NS
Answer
navypeer.com. 5 NS ns1.navypeer.com.
navypeer.com. 5 NS ns2.navypeer.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.navypeer.com. 5 A 170.62.105.133
ns2.navypeer.com. 5 A 173.252.195.244
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0