Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ionos.com. NS
Answer
ionos.com. 5 NS ns-1and1.ui-dns.org.
ionos.com. 5 NS ns-1and1.ui-dns.de.
ionos.com. 5 NS ns-1and1.ui-dns.biz.
ionos.com. 5 NS ns-1and1.ui-dns.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0