Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig bear-vault.com. NS
Answer
bear-vault.com. 5 NS second-dns.netcup.net.
bear-vault.com. 5 NS root-dns.netcup.net.
bear-vault.com. 5 NS third-dns.netcup.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0