Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig streifling.com. NS
Answer
streifling.com. 5 NS ns4.epik.com.
streifling.com. 5 NS ns3.epik.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0