Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig skunkproduction.com. NS
Answer
skunkproduction.com. 5 NS ns1.skunkproduction.com.
skunkproduction.com. 5 NS ns2.skunkproduction.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.skunkproduction.com. 5 A 45.95.195.138
ns2.skunkproduction.com. 5 A 190.2.145.171
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0