Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig lsi.upc.edu. NS
Answer
lsi.upc.edu. 5 NS ns1.ugdsi.upc.edu.
lsi.upc.edu. 5 NS ns1.upc.edu.
lsi.upc.edu. 5 NS ns2.ugdsi.upc.edu.
lsi.upc.edu. 5 NS ns2.upc.edu.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.upc.edu. 5 A 147.83.0.1
ns1.ugdsi.upc.edu. 5 A 147.83.20.7
ns2.upc.edu. 5 A 147.83.0.2
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0