Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig innatepipe.com. NS
Answer
innatepipe.com. 2 NS ns1.innatepipe.com.
innatepipe.com. 2 NS ns2.innatepipe.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.innatepipe.com. 2 A 5.196.97.102
ns2.innatepipe.com. 2 A 66.181.63.170
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0