Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig wolfpaw.net. NS
Answer
wolfpaw.net. 5 NS ns1.wolfpaw.net.
wolfpaw.net. 5 NS ns2.wolfpaw.net.
wolfpaw.net. 5 NS ns4.wolfpaw.net.
wolfpaw.net. 5 NS ns3.wolfpaw.net.
wolfpaw.net. 5 NS ns5.wolfpaw.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.wolfpaw.net. 5 A 74.123.71.22
ns2.wolfpaw.net. 5 A 198.134.28.118
ns3.wolfpaw.net. 5 A 208.94.148.13
ns4.wolfpaw.net. 5 A 208.80.124.13
ns5.wolfpaw.net. 5 A 208.80.126.13
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0