Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig damascusshoppingguide.com. NS
Answer
damascusshoppingguide.com. 5 NS ns-1585.awsdns-06.co.uk.
damascusshoppingguide.com. 5 NS ns-371.awsdns-46.com.
damascusshoppingguide.com. 5 NS ns-591.awsdns-09.net.
damascusshoppingguide.com. 5 NS ns-1835.awsdns-37.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0