Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig quebecmotels.com. NS
Answer
quebecmotels.com. 4 NS ns-1417.awsdns-49.org.
quebecmotels.com. 4 NS ns-124.awsdns-15.com.
quebecmotels.com. 4 NS ns-68.awsdns-08.com.
quebecmotels.com. 4 NS ns-780.awsdns-33.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0