Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig sdTnEt.de. NS
Answer
sdTnEt.de. 5 NS ns1.sdt.net.
sdTnEt.de. 5 NS ns2.sdTnEt.de.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.sdt.net. 5 A 194.88.160.11
ns2.sdtnet.de. 5 A 194.88.168.12
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0