Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig wyyerd.us. NS
Answer
wyyerd.us. 3 NS ns-344.awsdns-43.com.
wyyerd.us. 3 NS ns-1676.awsdns-17.co.uk.
wyyerd.us. 3 NS ns-1228.awsdns-25.org.
wyyerd.us. 3 NS ns-659.awsdns-18.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0