Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig morrisonlamothe.com. NS
Answer
morrisonlamothe.com. 5 NS bserv-mail.bserv.com.
morrisonlamothe.com. 5 NS ns1b.bserv.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1b.bserv.com. 5 A 72.38.190.5
bserv-mail.bserv.com. 5 A 207.188.93.162
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0