Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ontargeticon.com. NS
Answer
ontargeticon.com. 4 NS ns2.ontargeticon.com.
ontargeticon.com. 4 NS ns1.ontargeticon.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.ontargeticon.com. 4 A 144.217.79.168
ns2.ontargeticon.com. 4 A 51.79.104.30
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0