Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig newulmtel.net. NS
Answer
newulmtel.net. 5 NS dns.newulmtel.net.
newulmtel.net. 5 NS dns.hutchtel.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
dns.hutchtel.net. 5 A 66.103.161.70
dns.newulmtel.net. 5 A 66.60.193.60
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0