Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thetorontoteam.com. NS
Answer
thetorontoteam.com. 5 NS ns1.thetorontoteam.com.
thetorontoteam.com. 5 NS ns2.thetorontoteam.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.thetorontoteam.com. 5 A 86.111.189.20
ns2.thetorontoteam.com. 5 A 91.236.119.79
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0