Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig securepanel.net. NS
Answer
securepanel.net. 5 NS phx1.ns.securepanel.net.
securepanel.net. 5 NS atl.ns.securepanel.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
atl.ns.securepanel.net. 5 A 216.189.150.101
phx1.ns.securepanel.net. 5 A 184.95.35.250
atl.ns.securepanel.net. 5 AAAA 2602:ffc5:0:0:0:0:ffc5:341e
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0