Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig epicway.co.uk. NS
Answer
epicway.co.uk. 5 NS pam.ns.cloudflare.com.
epicway.co.uk. 5 NS cesar.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0