Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig unitymedia.de. NS
Answer
unitymedia.de. 5 NS ns2.vodafone-ip.de.
unitymedia.de. 5 NS ns3.vodafone-ip.de.
unitymedia.de. 5 NS ns1.vodafone-ip.de.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0