Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mainns.de. NS
Answer
mainns.de. 5 NS ns3.mainns.net.
mainns.de. 5 NS ns1.mainns.de.
mainns.de. 5 NS ns2.mainns.eu.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.mainns.de. 5 A 192.174.68.21
ns2.mainns.eu. 5 A 176.97.158.21
ns1.mainns.de. 5 AAAA 2001:67c:1bc:0:0:0:0:21
ns2.mainns.eu. 5 AAAA 2001:67c:10b8:0:0:0:0:21
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0