Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig communilink.com. NS
Answer
communilink.com. 5 NS dns2.communilink.net.
communilink.com. 5 NS dns1.communilink.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0