Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig prioritysms.chandnas.com. NS
Answer
prioritysms.chandnas.com. 5 NS ns1.dnsracks.com.
prioritysms.chandnas.com. 5 NS ns2.dnsracks.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0