Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig cloud.switch.ch. NS
Answer
cloud.switch.ch. 5 NS ns2.switch.ch.
cloud.switch.ch. 5 NS scsnms.switch.ch.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns2.switch.ch. 5 A 130.59.31.29
scsnms.switch.ch. 5 A 130.59.31.26
ns2.switch.ch. 5 AAAA 2001:620:0:ff:0:0:0:2f
scsnms.switch.ch. 5 AAAA 2001:620:0:ff:0:0:0:a7
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0