Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig thespotfranchise.com. NS
Answer
thespotfranchise.com. 5 NS ns-2035.awsdns-62.co.uk.
thespotfranchise.com. 5 NS ns-37.awsdns-04.com.
thespotfranchise.com. 5 NS ns-363.awsdns-45.com.
thespotfranchise.com. 5 NS ns-2004.awsdns-58.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0