Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig dealeron.com. NS
Answer
dealeron.com. 5 NS dns1.dealeron.com.
dealeron.com. 5 NS dns2.dealeron.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
dns1.dealeron.com. 5 A 208.94.148.2
dns2.dealeron.com. 5 A 208.80.124.2
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0