Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thelodgemsu.com. NS
Answer
thelodgemsu.com. 4 NS ns1.thelodgemsu.com.
thelodgemsu.com. 4 NS ns2.thelodgemsu.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.thelodgemsu.com. 4 A 107.172.98.44
ns2.thelodgemsu.com. 4 A 51.161.21.184
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0