Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig telemaxx.org. NS
Answer
telemaxx.org. 5 NS ns03.telemaxx.net.
telemaxx.org. 5 NS ns04.telemaxx.org.
telemaxx.org. 5 NS ns01.telemaxx.net.
telemaxx.org. 5 NS ns02.telemaxx.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns04.telemaxx.org. 5 A 185.132.34.161
ns04.telemaxx.org. 5 AAAA 2607:f1c0:fe:53:185:132:34:161
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0