Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig troupehipnotica.com. NS
Answer
troupehipnotica.com. 5 NS ns1.troupehipnotica.com.
troupehipnotica.com. 5 NS ns2.troupehipnotica.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.troupehipnotica.com. 5 A 66.181.38.118
ns2.troupehipnotica.com. 5 A 66.181.38.122
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0