Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig rootdns.eu. NS
Answer
rootdns.eu. 5 NS ns1.openprovider.nl.
rootdns.eu. 5 NS ns2.openprovider.be.
rootdns.eu. 5 NS ns3.openprovider.eu.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0