Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig lonex.com. NS
Answer
lonex.com. 5 NS ns1.lonex.com.
lonex.com. 5 NS ns2.lonex.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.lonex.com. 5 A 198.23.53.34
ns2.lonex.com. 5 A 198.23.53.31
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0