Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig sandals.com. NS
Answer
sandals.com. 5 NS a12-66.akam.net.
sandals.com. 5 NS a13-66.akam.net.
sandals.com. 5 NS a2-64.akam.net.
sandals.com. 5 NS a1-157.akam.net.
sandals.com. 5 NS a10-65.akam.net.
sandals.com. 5 NS a3-66.akam.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0