Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig watamutrailrun.com. NS
Answer
watamutrailrun.com. 4 NS ns2.watamutrailrun.com.
watamutrailrun.com. 4 NS ns1.watamutrailrun.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.watamutrailrun.com. 4 A 139.99.69.119
ns2.watamutrailrun.com. 4 A 51.79.218.99
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0