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