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