Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig alanteinteractive.com. NS
Answer
alanteinteractive.com. 1 NS ns2.collisioncode.com.
alanteinteractive.com. 1 NS ns1.collisioncode.com.
alanteinteractive.com. 1 NS ns1.alante.net.
alanteinteractive.com. 1 NS ns2.alante.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0