Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig eatkitties.com. NS
Answer
eatkitties.com. 5 NS ns1.eatkitties.com.
eatkitties.com. 5 NS ns2.eatkitties.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.eatkitties.com. 5 A 86.111.188.92
ns2.eatkitties.com. 5 A 185.9.157.51
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0