Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig intersmtp.com. NS
Answer
intersmtp.com. 5 NS ns2.bt.net.
intersmtp.com. 5 NS ns1.bt.net.
intersmtp.com. 5 NS ns0.bt.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns0.bt.net. 5 A 217.35.209.188
ns1.bt.net. 5 A 217.32.105.91
ns2.bt.net. 5 A 217.32.105.90
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0