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