ns709.hostgator.com has no CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ns709.hostgator.com. NS
Answer
The response has no answer records.
Authority
hostgator.com. 1374 SOA cody.ns.cloudflare.com. dns.cloudflare.com. 2398224735 10000 2400 604800 1800
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0