Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig baragatelephone.com. NS
Answer
baragatelephone.com. 4 NS ns2.up.net.
baragatelephone.com. 4 NS ns1.up.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0