Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig inmotionhosting.com. NS
Answer
inmotionhosting.com. 5 NS ns2.inmotionhosting.com.
inmotionhosting.com. 5 NS ns.inmotionhosting.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns.inmotionhosting.com. 5 A 74.124.210.242
ns2.inmotionhosting.com. 5 A 70.39.150.2
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0