Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig innovatelco.net. NS
Answer
innovatelco.net. 5 NS ns06.domaincontrol.com.
innovatelco.net. 5 NS ns1.innovatelco.net.
innovatelco.net. 5 NS ns2.innovatelco.net.
innovatelco.net. 5 NS ns05.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0