Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig upc-cablecom.ch. NS
Answer
upc-cablecom.ch. 5 NS ns1.cablecom.net.
upc-cablecom.ch. 5 NS ns2.cablecom.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0