gator2017.hostgator.com has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig gator2017.hostgator.com. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
hostgator.com. 586 SOA cody.ns.cloudflare.com. dns.cloudflare.com. 2397265122 10000 2400 604800 1800
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0