Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ipreo.com. NS
Answer
ipreo.com. 5 NS a10-65.akam.net.
ipreo.com. 5 NS a14-67.akam.net.
ipreo.com. 5 NS a6-64.akam.net.
ipreo.com. 5 NS a1-28.akam.net.
ipreo.com. 5 NS a9-65.akam.net.
ipreo.com. 5 NS a13-66.akam.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0