Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig ip.tng.de. NS
Answer
ip.tng.de. 5 NS rdns2.tng.de.
ip.tng.de. 5 NS rdns1.tng.de.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0