Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig seattlite.com. NS
Answer
seattlite.com. 3 NS ns2.seattlite.com.
seattlite.com. 3 NS ns1.seattlite.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.seattlite.com. 3 A 37.59.99.216
ns2.seattlite.com. 3 A 51.254.235.203
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0