Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig live-contract.eu. NS
Answer
live-contract.eu. 5 NS rohin.ns.cloudflare.com.
live-contract.eu. 5 NS gene.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0