Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig reachlocal.com. NS
Answer
reachlocal.com. 4 NS dns3.p07.nsone.net.
reachlocal.com. 4 NS ns01.gannett-dns.com.
reachlocal.com. 4 NS dns1.p07.nsone.net.
reachlocal.com. 4 NS dns4.p07.nsone.net.
reachlocal.com. 4 NS ns03.gannett-dns.com.
reachlocal.com. 4 NS ns02.gannett-dns.com.
reachlocal.com. 4 NS dns2.p07.nsone.net.
reachlocal.com. 4 NS ns04.gannett-dns.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0