Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig triumph-cutter.com. NS
Answer
triumph-cutter.com. 5 NS ns1.triumph-cutter.com.
triumph-cutter.com. 5 NS ns2.triumph-cutter.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.triumph-cutter.com. 5 A 163.5.51.251
ns2.triumph-cutter.com. 5 A 198.23.151.123
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0