Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig wildcatcanoeandkayak.com. NS
Answer
wildcatcanoeandkayak.com. 5 NS ns1.wildcatcanoeandkayak.com.
wildcatcanoeandkayak.com. 5 NS ns2.wildcatcanoeandkayak.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.wildcatcanoeandkayak.com. 5 A 89.39.149.229
ns2.wildcatcanoeandkayak.com. 5 A 185.116.215.10
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0