Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig techvalleycom.com. NS
Answer
techvalleycom.com. 5 NS cns2.firstlight.net.
techvalleycom.com. 5 NS cns1.firstlight.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0