Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig lincolnhousebasilstreet.com. NS
Answer
lincolnhousebasilstreet.com. 5 NS ns-917.awsdns-50.net.
lincolnhousebasilstreet.com. 5 NS ns-246.awsdns-30.com.
lincolnhousebasilstreet.com. 5 NS ns-837.awsdns-40.net.
lincolnhousebasilstreet.com. 5 NS ns-1129.awsdns-13.org.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0