Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig littlewoods.com. NS
Answer
littlewoods.com. 5 NS use9.akam.net.
littlewoods.com. 5 NS ns1-98.akam.net.
littlewoods.com. 5 NS eur2.akam.net.
littlewoods.com. 5 NS eur5.akam.net.
littlewoods.com. 5 NS eur6.akam.net.
littlewoods.com. 5 NS usw1.akam.net.
littlewoods.com. 5 NS ns1-50.akam.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0