Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig hubapiqa.com. NS
Answer
hubapiqa.com. 2 NS ines.ns.cloudflare.com.
hubapiqa.com. 2 NS peyton.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0