Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig inap.com. NS
Answer
inap.com. 5 NS chin.ns.cloudflare.com.
inap.com. 5 NS marty.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0