Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cleequipment.com. NS
Answer
cleequipment.com. 3 NS ns1.cleequipment.com.
cleequipment.com. 3 NS ns2.cleequipment.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.cleequipment.com. 3 A 86.111.189.219
ns2.cleequipment.com. 3 A 15.235.133.238
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0