Trump’s Super Intelligence edict supercharges .si domain registrations

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US President Donald Trump’s rebranding of artificial intelligence (AI) as super intelligence (SI) has already caused a flurry of activity for one internet domain registry.

SI is the international country code for Slovenia, and in the 24 hours following Trump’s executive order, Slovenia’s .si domain registry recorded 9,780 new .si registrations, compared to just 3,515 in the whole of the preceding month. Registrations were running at 2,726 per month and 110 per day around this time last year.

Until now, registrars typically charged just $10 for .si domain registrations. The price is higher in the .ai domain belonging to the island of Anguilla: domain names there currently fetch $90.

Conspiracy theorists are already wondering if there’s a link between First Lady Melania Trump’s Slovenian origins and the decision to rename AI as SI.

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