Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig the-wiseman.com. NS
Answer
the-wiseman.com. 5 NS ns-500.awsdns-62.com.
the-wiseman.com. 5 NS ns-208.awsdns-26.com.
the-wiseman.com. 5 NS ns-374.awsdns-46.com.
the-wiseman.com. 5 NS ns-1218.awsdns-24.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0