Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig therowdydow.com. NS
Answer
therowdydow.com. 4 NS ns1.therowdydow.com.
therowdydow.com. 4 NS ns2.therowdydow.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.therowdydow.com. 4 A 149.50.99.126
ns2.therowdydow.com. 4 A 51.81.4.233
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0