Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig tronche.com. NS
Answer
tronche.com. 5 NS dns16.ovh.net.
tronche.com. 5 NS ns16.ovh.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0