Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig inhosted.com. NS
Answer
inhosted.com. 5 NS ns3.fastdns.hosting.
inhosted.com. 5 NS ns1.fastdns.hosting.
inhosted.com. 5 NS ns2.fastdns.hosting.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0