Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig preceptstechnology.com. NS
Answer
preceptstechnology.com. 1 NS ns1.preceptstechnology.com.
preceptstechnology.com. 1 NS ns2.preceptstechnology.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.preceptstechnology.com. 1 A 139.99.68.215
ns2.preceptstechnology.com. 1 A 51.79.234.125
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0