Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig quotevalet.com. NS
Answer
quotevalet.com. 1 NS ns23.domaincontrol.com.
quotevalet.com. 1 NS ns24.domaincontrol.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0