Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig intelleq.net. NS
Answer
intelleq.net. 5 NS ns2.intelleqcom.net.
intelleq.net. 5 NS ns1.intelleqcom.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.intelleqcom.net. 5 A 64.19.96.69
ns2.intelleqcom.net. 5 A 64.19.96.72
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0