Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig communications.atlanticbb.us. NS
Answer
communications.atlanticbb.us. 4 NS ns1.exacttarget.com.
communications.atlanticbb.us. 4 NS ns4.exacttarget.com.
communications.atlanticbb.us. 4 NS ns3.exacttarget.com.
communications.atlanticbb.us. 4 NS ns2.exacttarget.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0