Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig wordtothewise.com. NS
Answer
wordtothewise.com. 5 NS b.wordtothewise.com.
wordtothewise.com. 5 NS a.wordtothewise.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
a.wordtothewise.com. 5 A 45.58.56.29
b.wordtothewise.com. 5 A 46.62.235.105
a.wordtothewise.com. 5 AAAA 2602:ffc5:70:0:0:0:1:25f3
b.wordtothewise.com. 5 AAAA 2a01:4f9:c013:306e:0:0:0:1
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0